WANTED......can you help?

OK....The search has started to find a friend of mine a horse.
It must be 15.3+ and must be wide if it's 15.3 as my friend is 5ft 11inches.  Aged between 8-12 years.  Mare or Gelding.  Any colour except dark bay although would consider if everything else was suitable.
Wanted to do dressage (Intro and Prelim to begin with) on, so it needs to be reasonably schooled and must hack out alone and in company and be safe in traffic etc.
Required to pop over small jumps for fun.
She has a reasonable price range as she wants something with sanity and reasonably schooling although the priority is that it is safe & sound.
She has lessons but is mainly a weekend 1 hour rider and therefore needs something to bring her on as well.

If you think you may know of anything that could be suitable please get in contact with me and I will pass your details on.

Many thanks in advance.

Gotta watch this....amazing....well done Jazz

Christmas, New Year and big babies.......

Well Christmas is now over and most people are back to work!  We are two of the lucky ones and Peter and I are going to see our best friends for our very own Christmas tonight!  I hope everyone has had a fantastic time.  Father Christmas excelled himself this year at Latham House and we got lots of wonderful pressies
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Riding has been suspended over Christmas due to the weather and I have not been firing on all cylinders due to a cold I picked up last week.  We have been living off Turkey sarnies and chocolate....probably like most of the UK!

Kirkby (left) & Maisey (right)

This morning we brought the babies in, hosed them off, did their feet and put Kill Itch on Kirkby's hind legs.  This seems to have really helped him and he hardly kicking at all now.  We have also changed him to rape straw and he seems to tolerate this better than the wheat straw.  I have never used it before and it is very short and spiky with a lot of stalks in it.  My first reaction was that I didn't like it but it does make a very good deep bed and helped with his lordship so I think I will stick with it for now.  Its scary to think that this year my babies are three and four!  Where does the time go to.....

We cancelled our trip to Somerford on the 20th as the ground had been too frozen to get Tilly out and I had not ridden her since the Thursday before.....I at least want a fighting chance of staying on her!!  We are going to re schedule for sometime soon, I have registered with British Eventing to take advantage of their four monthly instalment plan so that hopefully, fingers crossed, Tilly and I will be ready to go eventing this spring....
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The last time I rode was the Tuesday before Christmas and I hacked Mez and then Tilly round the block.  Both were very well behaved and I was so pleased with Mez as she has not done a lot of hacking alone and she even managed to hold it together when we met the pigs!!!

I am pleased to say that Supplements 4 Horses is still receiving orders throughout the Christmas period and I would like to thank all my customers.  Please go to www.supplements4horses.co.uk and check out our products and blog.

So everyone will hopefully be looking forward to the New Year and planning what they want to do with their horses....I know I am and getting quite excited if not over whelmed by the fact that I could have four horses in work....

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a 

No plaits and pulled muscles.....

I had entered Mez for the BD at Myerscough on Wednesday so when Tuesday came around I thought I had better take her up to the school at least to ride through my test if nothing else!!!  Half way there I felt an itch on my head and reached up to itch it ..... only to discover I could.....NO HAT!!!!!!  So I swiftly dismounted and lead her to the school and borrowed a hat from Ros.  Mez was quite strong which was not surprising as I had not ridden her since our last outing ten days previous!!
I borrowed the lunge line and let her have a canter round before leading her back home.  So Wednesday came and the weather was so pants that I could not be bothered to plait up in the wind and rain etc. 
I always plait up.  Two years ago I took Tilly eventing and had to get up really early, Maisey had hurt her hock badly and it was very serious so I had to deal with that and the person who was supposed to be helping me let me down so I was in such a rush that I did not plait up.   I did my dressage test and at the end the judge got out of the car and told me off for not plaiting up.  Then she wrote on my sheet 'Good test...shame it was spoilt by your pony looking like it had just been dragged in from the field'!!  I was SOOOOO mad.  I lead all day and got beaten by the last young girl on a very expensive horse bought from a prof!  I was so mad that I could not stay to get my second prize and rosette in case the judge said something else......I knew I would not be able to keep my mouth shut!!!!
ANYWAY we arrived at Myerscough...only to discover that it was the same judge and I was not plaited up!!!!  Oh it put me in a right old dither.....Peter gave me a good talking to and so I got on Mez and tried to concentrate on the task in hand.



As you can see Mez pulled it out of the bag and we got 64.84% and came 4th which I was very pleased with as the people who beat me were mainly warming up for the Elementary class!
So that is our last dressage competition until after Christmas.  She now has 27 BD points and has just over taken Millie!!
I have been giving her physio this week as she was struggling to canter properly on the left rein and this was much improved and I even managed counter canter but she is not 100%.  Last week I got a 3 for my counter canter as she really couldn't manage it.  Hopefully a bit more massage and some hacking over Christmas will help everything get back to normal again.

A normal Friday night. Hahahahahahahaha!!!!

Tilly in action.....

WOOOOHOOOOO........Tilly's Back!!!!!

So, 15 months after the event that tweaked Tilly's suspensory ligaments we have made it back to the beach.  It has been a very long journey and at times I did think we would never make it back but our patience and help from Joe and Barry have paid off. 
On Monday I took Tilly to the school up the road.  This was the first time I had ridden her in the school since she went lame and she was a little on her toes so I thought it may be a good idea to bob her round on the lunge first......hahahahahaha ...... thank goodness for lunge lines!!!!!!
She went mental, turned herself inside out and you would have thought that she had never had a saddle on by the amount of humping she was doing!  Eventually I got on and just walked round with a little trot at the end but she was very spooky and jumpy!   So I took her back on Tuesday and lunged her again.  She was calmer and Ross stayed with me while I rode, just to be on the safe side!  She was much more relaxed and after trotting round on both reins I tentatively asked for canter.  She was fab and we cantered round and round...she did not want to stop.  It was a lovely balanced canter, in an outline and she was light in my hand.

 So Wednesday saw us on the beach!!!!   Peter, Jack and Stan came along too and we all set off together.  There was no humping but Peter did hold onto me down the ramp as this is where she usually humps and she was really relaxed throughout.  I went off and trotted to the gully as normal and then picked up canter, maintaining a good contact and a short rein!!  Stan accompanied us and Jack stayed with Peter and we cantered a big loop and headed back up the beach to Peter.  A couple of times I could tell she was thinking humpy bumpy but I growled at her and she was fine.  We cantered a few circles round Peter at the end and then walked back to the wagon.  What a star!! 

And to cap it all off nicely we came home via Bradshaws farm shop and bought our Christmas tree!!!!!!
We are hopefully aiming to go to Somerfords Winter Ride the week before Christmas if all goes to plan.........