Recent content by Spiritedly

I haven't found any slogans that make a difference but my hatcam does and I've had drivers stare at that whilst apologising! In regards to 'young horse' or 'horse in training' affecting insurance, it's no different that having 'L' or 'P' plates on a car and I do have one that I wear...

I usually tell people she is seal brown as when I researched it she fits the description perfectly even having the lighter/ginger muzzle, elbows and stifle. I have to admit I've never heard of it being called seal bay before.

I have the opposite with my mare, she is passported as bay but to me is brown as she has no black points and is sometimes mistaken for black.

I have a pony whom is the same, he can't have a round in the field as he will only leave it to drink or sleep! I've found double netting his hay and then hanging it from the ceiling so it swings and he has to work for it slows him down a bit. The recommended amount of hay is 2% of horses weight...

I was talking to a friend today and said I wouldn't mind an ottb as my next ridden horse but in reality I'm 55 and have a knackered back and hands so probably won't replace any of mine when they go. My ridden horses are 24 and 17 so the younger one will hopefully do me until I hang up my boots...

Congratulations and welcome to the standie club! In regards to going barefoot, I know all horses are individual but my mare hasn't had shoes in the 13 years I've had her and her feet are rock hard. She actually sounds shod when going on a hard surface and if the grounds wet she sounds like...

A thought about the stable situation, is the stable an enclosed one or one in a barn with bars to see the neighbours? I ask because my mare was more unsettled in an enclosed stable and even in one with bars she would take herself to a corner and stand staring towards the corner facing the main...

I watched part of a video posted by a young 'influencer'...not on purpose a clients daughter was watching and asked me if I liked the pony...the pony was being ridden in side reins and a martingale with a knot tied in it to keep it tight, so rather than it coming into effect when the pony raised...

No photos but if I'm lunging with 2 lines I use their usual bridle and usually put the lines through a roller.

Good luck with the vetting! I have an Arab x ASB but he isn't gaited like my Standie mare and I also have issues with my L2 - L5 vertebrae as well as nerve damage and partial paralysis and I can ride my mare for hours as she is so smooth but my gelding requires me dosing up with strong...

Our puppy sussed out how to go through the cat flap about a week after we got him! He's just turned 6 months and somehow still fits 😳 It's a pain though as he loves the delicacy that is cat 💩 so will whizz through the flap after them to get it warm straight out of the oven 🤢 He's just had us...

Not taken part for the passed couple of years due to bereavements right before Christmas but I have no parents left to make the season about them so I've entered again this year. Edited to say that the bit about my parents was a bit of dark humour and I miss them loads 😢

I have a standie mare and I would love to clone a dozen like her. She will look after a novice/beginner rider but step it up for the more experienced....my son qhen he was younger tried to get her to canter across a field but she decided he wasn't stable enough and did no more than slow trot, me...

I feed/fed it to one of mine when I'm having issues with his weight. He's a bad doer who managed to stress himself laminitic after doing a tendon hooking around the field so I had to take him off the feeds he was on and he dropped weight extremely quickly ....im talking looked like a rescue...

One of mine is registered with Saddlebred Association but I had his passport overstamped by the AHS as I wanted to compete him in pb Arab classes so he needed to be registered with them.