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Measuring jumping ability in the traditional sense is easy – does it jump big and does it makes a correct shape
realistically in racing you don’t want that! so ability i think is more, does it get from one side of the fence to the other 99% of the time, and when it makes a mistake does it sort itself out easily.
Great News. Owner, Trainer and new Owner are to be congratulated
I’m very happy for all concerned, she’s delighted, and hopes that in time he’ll be a really fun all rounder/eventer. She bit my hand off when i mentioned him!
As an update, he’s going to live with a very good friend of mine in Wales, who is very experienced and will give him a lovely home.
She’s arranging a day to go and collect him from his trainer today I think.
Very happy for them both
Having spoken to naps via email he seems a very responsible owner, who wants the best for his horse.
I think he is currently in touch with a very experienced friend of mine who’s very interested in the horse
I hope he has a long and happy retirement. I doubt sitting in a field would be to his liking, so i hope they find him a new job to keep his mind ticking over.
I agree with you there but at least the OP is trying, rather than just packing the horse off to the nearest sale, where it could be picked up by an utter cretin for £50.
12 day ban, however due to the technicalities of banning amatuers he will still be able to ride Long Run in the King George
When Jinnyj said really, it’s all well and good to say that all horses should have good homes lined up for them, but that’s simply impossible. I know a lot of people who out and out would not be seen dead with a thoroughbred, they have a reputation for being lunatics that break easily, regardless of how true or not that is. I don’t envy anyone trying to sell their horses at the moment.
People need to make an effort to appraise themselves of the facts before getting on their soapbox. Even if they believe they are acting with the best intentions if they don’t know what they’re talking about they’re not going to help man nor beast.
was that aimed at me? I won’t list my equine CV, but i can assure you I know what I’m talking about.
I think some of you don’t realise thoroughbreds aren’t worth the paper their passports are printed on outside of racing. They are VERY hard to sell if they’ve never been near a trainers yard, once they have, even harder.
Naps, he’s the sort of thing i would normally be very interested in if i didn’t have an x-pointer on the go at the moment. Good luck to him. I may be able to help you sell though
Pm me Also, put him on horsemart, it’s cheap for the amount of people that look at it.
oh good god. I’m 20 next month so young enough to remember all this
I don’t think the exams themselves have got easier, but the layout has, the breaking down in to coursework, modules ect, allows for people to be spoonfed, and as some of the ‘better’ schools are simply results factories with some fancy PE options (i went to one!) this is exactly what they do.
Although in all honesty I don’t think it matters. You can argue that **** floats, but on the whole cream will rise to the top, and that’s why they bought about an A* at a-level, it’s hard to get 90% and above in all your modules, so it’s not a law of averages like the other grades are. And it’s comparing you to people who you are being educated with, not people who were educated when they were still called o-levels.
I think the standard of teaching may well be progressively getting better, and the wider range of exams means that kids who are good at sport but not so much maths and english can get a result to be proud of. We don’t need to produce swathes of people who are Oxbridge standard, but it’s nice to get a good grade in a GCSE. A young lad who i used to loan a horse to was not bright, but he wants to be a dancer and got A* for his dance GCSE, no it wasn’t academic, but he was proud of that and gives him hope and drive for his future career.
I really don’t think it matters, and there are far bigger problems to address in education, such as targeting the serious problems that take place in innercity comprehensives, rather than simply bitching about how people 30 years your junior have it easier than you. grow up.
oh gosh you bunch of scrooges! I love Christmas.
Get to go home and see my mother, get to eat food i’ve not had to buy or pay for the heating(!!), then after you’ve got over the hangover there’s the king george.I think a bigger problem is the shear volume of horses bred? and we have this bizarre thing in the UK where by we don’t really use the best mares we could 99% of the time, and that slowly drives down standards in all ways.
I did my first hennessey this weekend. No where near as big a course, but taunton does the same re letting racegoers in the middle of the course and to go wherever they like.
I did wonder what hte hell emma was doing there, but any horsey person can spot a well horse, you could get carl hester in the paddock and he’d tell you what horse looked the best.
