Recent content by woodtiger

I think there are two sides to every story, and coming onto a public forum to vent your spleen might make you feel better but in the long run won't help. There are a lot of aspects in this situation that you are leaving out. At the end of the day, you are no longer at this yard and are happy...

FWIW I have a three year old I have been backing and breaking myself gently over the past three months. I have never carried a whip whilst riding him. The closest he has come to a whip is on the lunge. I firmly believe that there is no need for a whip when starting off a horse under saddle if...

Thanks AmyMay! X

Could someone please put the link to the LLF Facebook page? I couldn't find it....

Not for long.... They now have set up LLF Sporthorses: http://www.llfsporthorses.com/

Nice one BobSmith!

I saw this video on FaceBook. I am so glad to hear that TicToc is back home, safe and sound. The dealers in question appear to have a Plan B, and have set up a website for LLF Sporthorses: same people, same address, different name: http://www.llfsporthorses.com/ I had the misfortune of...

Sounds like it could be one of the Jinny books, by Patricia Mc-someone? It's about a girl who "acquires" a chestnut Arab called Shantih.... There was a series I think.

Who thinks that the Olympia organisers should run this class again? It was such fun! I loved Billington and the Whitakers, and looking on World of Showjumping pictures of the Fancy dress in Oslo, it looks as if the riders enjoy it too....

Old news. The silver lining is that this means Pete has a decent budget to go shopping for Rio horses! Also, it's nice to see that some come back across the water to the UK as American owner Jane Clark has given the ride on her fabulous string of show jumpers (Cella, Urico etc) to Ben Maher...

Have you thought about Berlin? He would add size and power to your little mare, and the offspring I have seen are lovely. This cross has also produced Eurocommerce Zurich, which is very highly thought of. If Berlin is too expensive then maybe one of his sons: Zanzibar is Berlin x Nabab de Reve?

Eurocommerce have been in financial dire straits for a long time now, and many of the horses have been sold. California was sold to Qatar for €5m which didn't touch the sides - Eurocommerce is a property company and have been hit really hard by the economic downturn. The banks have called in...

Royal Mail hadn't painted Ben Ainslie's postbox gold as of yesterday, so one of the Lymington locals took it upon himself to paint it gold, saving them a job.... Sadly he was arrested and banged up for the night for "criminal damage". He's not done a bad job though...

For me it was Andy Austin commenting that Rich Feller's stallion Flexible "lacked scope"... Errr, the horse won both the USEF selection trials he did and the World Cup Final 2012, so no he doesn't lack any scope! And Mike Tucker saying that "this is as big as it gets" well, yea it is the...

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