I have been overwhelmed reading the posts on my thread re the loss of my wonderful mare.
Thank you so much everyone for your incredibly kind words of comfort, support and understanding.
To those that shared their grief at losing beloved equines to this awful disease and other causes I send my...
I have been overwhelmed reading these posts.
Thank you so much everyone for your incredibly kind words of comfort, support and understanding.
To those that shared their grief at losing beloved equines to this awful disease and other causes I send my heartfelt sympathies and hope that time has...
On Monday I lost my beautiful mare to laminitis.
Onset was sudden - she was galloping and playing with field mates the evening before she came out of her stable presenting as laminitic on the morning of 1st December.
Initially she responded to anti inflammatory injections and meloxicam and...
I don't know where to start with this tbh.
Really?
His "bruised ego" had to be because she rejected his advances and cracked a joke with "some other jock" (male obviously) not because she's a sucessful jockey with better results and rides.
Jesus wept as we might say here in Clare ?
My (male) friends who worked in the UK racing game 30 and 40 years ago are appalled that this behaviour is still being tolerated and are speaking out on social media.
If those still working in the industry are not it can only mean that:
a) they aren't bothered by it.
or
b) they feel...
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In case anyone is looking for country boots - these are fabulous I have 2 pairs & am sitting on my hands atm to prevent me from ordering another ?
I was convinced I'd win every year but no ?
Had to wait til I was 32 for my first horse - he was an angel of an ex racer and definitely with the wait ?
I bought my ISH - Connie/ID/TB mare as a very scrawny 3 year old standing at 14.3.
She's 11 now and a well built 15.3.
Think she's finished growing ???
Harry Hall seemed to be the only hats around when I started as a young 'un in the late 60s.
We solved the any fitting issues (and at the same time emulated our Showjumping heroes - David Broome & Eddie Macken in my case ??) by cutting off the under chin elastic ?