So there’s not a huge amount to report about Scottie right now. But I haven’t really talked about him for a few weeks so I thought I would let you know where we are.
We all know how important it is to warm our horses up. But how many of us warm ourselves up before getting on? Are we restricting our horses and ourselves?
We’ve all heard stories of horses helping themselves to a ham sandwich. Or have found a trampled rat in our stable. But do horses kill and eat animals?
This has been something I have been umming and ahhing about writing as a blog post as it is just a massive rant! I love attending Badminton, it’s always a…
I am super excited to let you all know that I have finally finished my first book and it is now available on Amazon as both Kindle and Paperback! Building…
So while going through some of my final Badminton details yesterday, I stumbled upon an ex racehorse I had completely missed from my coverage! This 15 year old bay gelding…
Yesterday was the final stage of Badminton Horse Trials and with the leaders being close, with just a fence between most, every mistake mattered! Oliver Townend, who had been leading…
Yesterdays cross country really shook the leaderboard up. This interesting course asked the horse plenty of tricky questions over some smaller fences as well as asking them to show plenty…
It has been an exciting few days of dressage here at Badminton with Oliver Townend setting a record breaking dressage score of 19.7 with Cillnabradden Evo as the 4th horse…
Yesterday I walked the majority of Saturday’s cross country course to get a feel for it and try to decide which areas are going to cause problems. So if you…
Badminton kicks off today with the first horse inspection! Find out what ex racehorses are running this year.
Things have been fairly quiet on the Paris Dixie front recently. We were hoping she would run in a Champion Bumper at the beginning of April at Aintree. But despite…
I am super excited to announce that I am now a brand ambassador for Cherry Tree Training! If you haven’t heard of them, you might have seen my highly entertaining attempt at one of their exercises recently on social media.
Sheath cleaning is one of those jobs which divides horse owners and vets alike. But after watching Scottie have 2 wees very close to each other, it was a job I felt I needed to do.
This week I spoke to our vet about Scottie going lame again. We discussed the options available and came up with a new plan. As things stand, we have 3…
