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Obviously you have more spare cash than me. The horse still competed and got placed whether I watched it or not. It would have been brilliant to see him go but ......

I had a horse compete at a showjumping class at Olympia which my wife and I bred and own. We would have loved to have watched it compete but the organizers wanted to charge us £60 each for passes which on top of the travel, food etc whould have come to around £200+ for the "Privilege " of...

I remember seeing Tripple X as a shaggy young horse that had just been brought in from the field as a 6yo and Ben saying that he had bred it with no science behind it, hadn't had the chance to do anything with it and didn't know what he was going to do with it. To me this demonstrates what a...

Towerlands used to be THE premier full time indoor showjumping arena that used to get packed with spectators to watch shows, you just have to look at the photo's on the walls to see what it was like with great riders and horses .With it's decline and now closure, it really say's it all about the...

I am being told £4.50 up from £2.50 last year and that yields are down 35-50% down and with the rising cost of the fertilizer/fuel, that have got to charge this. I have been told that bales in Essex could be an average of £6 per bale, if you can get hold of it. We get through something in the...

Which was one of the main points of having passports and is more than what would happen now. The whole point of the thread is a report was done to tell us what we already know and anything now would be too little too late.

If passports had been done correctly in the first place then DEFRA wouldn't have had to get involved. At the time half the societies were still using manual systems. The problem with the PIO's are they all use different systems so there is a lack of co-ordination and back to empire building...

They said 8 years ago it would be a rolls royce of a system and I told them it would be a tatty old landrover and a complete waste of money! Who was right? I work with databases and tried to help them (to cut a very long story short, saying that it should be done the same as DVLA, one...

The discussion is about the report and is it another load of hot air that is 10 years to late and a complete waste of money and I am afraid to say it is. Horses are large animals that live for a very long time and there are also significant welfare issues to be considered (which are already...

There was a study done about 10 years ago which came up with similar recomendations, was never acted upon which has left the equestrian industry and sports in a very serious condition which they may never recover from, especially with the current economic situation getting worse. People were...

some good names mentioned and I hope that they will split the roles with a manager, so they can manage and motivate and an asisstant/coach (perhaps they do read the forum). Let's hope they get someone who has a bit of a personality (not Katie Price though

The BSJA are caught between two problems. Do they cater for a large % of the memebrship and have smaller classes at the sacrifice of the larger classes and then people complain that they cannot produce horses. The large % of the membership money, entries ertc raised does go to support the top...

I think it was only one person who was critical of the manager, the rest were saying that a selection panel does not work. What was said was an open secret anyway just that most of the time it is said in whispers and people were 'frightend' to say anything for fear of repercussions. Now it is...

Yes. I also think this is the first time I have heard people publicly stating the points made and it is great it was made on TV. The TV people know that there is a problem and why they asked the questions. I have always thought that there should be one manager and an assistant manager and the...

Didn't she own or part own the great Grey Cavado that Willi Milliger rode?