If you want to win a lovely down filled 3/4 length Mountain Horse jacket then click your self over to e-Venting.co.uk as I have donated one of the lovely jackets Mountain Horse sponsor me with as a prize in their Badminton 2013 competition! All you have to do to enter is submit your best guess for the winner and winning score of this year’s Badders! If you’re correct this gorgeous jacket and socks (don’t forget the socks!) could be yours!
Today was one of those brilliant days where you feel that your horse has learnt a big lesson and things are really starting to makes sense for them. Dustry and I have been hacking out more recently now that the weather and ground is better and it’s really beneficial for him. We’ve been cantering in 2 point position in wide open spaces (this doesn’t seem to excite him) and we’ve been walking calming out with company (this is most exciting! go figure?!) With the exception of a few ‘squeaky moments’ from him and his weird kung fu kicking of a…
One of the most frustrating things about horses is when you know something is not quiet right with them, but you can’t tell what. If only they could talk, right?… In these situations I usually reach for my thermometer. Taking your horse’s temperature is one of the fastest ways to identify if those early warning signs you think you are picking up on really are correct, or if they are simple faking 😉 You can buy an ‘equine friendly’ digital thermometer online for under £10. I have this Nettex model. This plastic digital thermometer is really useful because it stores the last temperature reading…
Dustry’s jumping education has not progressed as fast as a typical (issue free, non raced) horse, and we (my instructor Amanda Brewer and I) have spent a long time re-schooling and developing his way of going on the flat in order to lay strong foundations for his jumping training. Now that he has successfully been out and about to a few little show-jumping events and taken that all in his stride we are beginning to work on improving his technique with more technical questions, such as grid work. I packed in 2 lessons over the Easter weekend and the 2nd one we…
2 weeks ago we went to Sparsholt for some BD action, but sadly things did not go very well! The great British weather decided that Saturday 16th March was probably the best day to unleash as much weather as possible on the south west! We arrived and it was one of those moments where you think ‘this could well be cancelled, I’ll just go to the secretary to check….’ but nope! it was going ahead. To cut a long story short we were both drowned within moments of getting out of the lorry, had a horrid warm up in torrential…