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SMy boy has gone. 21 years with him and now life will be very different. He went very peacefully and Holt's we're absolutely amazing...
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SYes! I have all the mod cons on a seriously lovely private yard. Only me, yo and one other livery with retired horse. I had a...
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SMaybe he's exhausted
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Ssoutherncomfort reacted to sbloom's post in the thread Has anyone had a horse mature/change shape a bit past 8yo? with
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Yep, I see growth at later ages, one cob in particular growing over an inch aged 9. However....height at the withers is also affected... -
SProbably worth remembering that if you are an hour from the practice, and the practice has clients in every direction of an hour's...
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SSomeone has left her mark already and has zero regrets :D
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SThere is a large chasm between asking a horse to do something it does not want to do and forcing the horse to do something.
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SDressage is at the pointy end because the point of it, the origins of it essentially, are supposed to be about improving equine welfare...
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SMostly it starts out quite well, though there are already licensing requirements for riding schools... Interestingly, a few things that...
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Ssoutherncomfort reacted to ihatework's post in the thread Cheeky/ridiculous posts you see on Facebook. with Like.
ALL the competition horses I have had would happily hack alone. But I would always pull off the road if possible for heavy traffic (or...
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Ssoutherncomfort reacted to DabDab's post in the thread Cheeky/ridiculous posts you see on Facebook. with Like.
Sounds like the complaint of someone who can't train the competition horses he's selling to hack safely, and is salty about it.
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Ssoutherncomfort reacted to SpeedyPony's post in the thread Cheeky/ridiculous posts you see on Facebook. with Like.
It would also make me worry about how they'd been started- IMO the first year or so under saddle should be mostly getting them out to...
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Ssoutherncomfort reacted to Beausmate's post in the thread Has anyone had a horse mature/change shape a bit past 8yo? with Like.
My 9 year old Connie x Fell has gone very wide in the last year. Some of it might be down to the different work we're doing, but she...
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Ssoutherncomfort reacted to AShetlandBitMeOnce's post in the thread Has anyone had a horse mature/change shape a bit past 8yo? with Like.
A lady on my yard with an ID is saying hers also didn't stop growing until he was 8 or 9.... I'm choosing not to listen with my 17.2hh...
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Ssoutherncomfort reacted to ihatework's post in the thread Bit for small mouth on "strong" pony with Like.
Pony sized kimblewick would be my first go to
