Recent content by Spirit3106

So I've been riding on and off all my life, and properly got back into it after a year last summer. A few months in, I started cantering for the first time. Usually I do hacking, usually with 1-2 other people and my riding teacher, and we learn to ride on the hack. So I wasn't too bothered the...

Thanks all! Usually I take lessons with just one other person, ocassionally one or two others (last week it was just me though). I do ride a variety of horses, and I try to pick the more advanced horses when I get to decide who I ride. Feeling a bit more confident, and the tips were very helpful!

Hello, So I've started back taking lessons every Saturday for a few months now (I had to take a break for just under a year) but I've started worrying - will I ever be able to become a really good rider with just one lesson a week? Due to money and time it's not really possible to do extra...

Thanks all. We've asked the yard owner if he could remove even one of the horse boxes twice before. All he did was move one of them up a few feet, basically the same size gap as the other side of the pillar. She hates going through either side. The owner has even seen our horse spooking when...

Hi, About two months ago, I started fostering my first horse. She's from a rescue sanctuary, but she's lived there since she was a foal. A few people have fostered her already before. She's 17 years old and very gentle. We're boarding her at a livery, but we do all her chores, we just pay for...