Well I am 54 and about to embark on riding my homebred youngster next year, well I might sit on her after backing this autumn. I must be mad, but somehow I think we are going to get on fine. I am a very cautious person so will do everything humanly possible to give her a good start and get her...
I have had reasonable success with my youngster in the show ring so don't have a particular axe to grind in that direction, but I have become more and more disillusioned with the judging of showing classes because of:-
- unprofessional fraternisation between judges and competitors they know...