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Yes ma'am! SlackerBoy, who lives behind my leg, goes in a straight D-ring Nathe. I was taught that you can't put on more bit than you have engine, so with no engine, we were looking for a...

It sounds like both of you would be ok with having the horse sold, and also that you are communicating well. That's a great start. Don't change the communication part. Try to be kind and generous...

I watched members of their field team measure several horses and they are quite quick. I don't know how precise these measurements ought to be in order to produce reliable data. In most cases, they...

In this case-- where the horse is 24/7 choosing to hold his body in an unnatural posture-- I'd say he's in the kind of pain that's constant and distracting.

Yes, the key is to let the *horse*,...

Some of this has to do with the buying/board-n-training paying ammies, but lots has to do with the trainers who need to make a buck, too.

As everyone has pointed out, a green horse takes time. A...

Actually, vets are probably quite aware that some barns burn through "unrealistic" amounts of dex or bute or whatever. However, those barns also tend to generate an enormous amount of business.
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As I understand it, they aren't doing a "trial" so much as trying to resolve genotype with phenotype for horses.

Don't get all amped up about forthcoming results. Any appreciably exciting ones...

To AlterEgoMe-- The list you gave includes Banamine and Naproxin. I may have this wrong, but isn't that "stacking"-- i.e. adding Banamine to an NSAID and illegal? Yes, I could check the USEF...

I would be *delighted* to show in an all OTTB division.

I think that might be one way to allow people like me-- with my make-up-your-own-nice-horse attitude, skill and slim billfold-- to find a...

I can't believe I'm watching a "please help the TBs in the bigotted hunter world!" conversation.

I'm old enough to remember the same thing being done for WBs. Remember the Non-TB hunter classes? ...

It's a great question and one I have been thinking about in personal terms, leading me to *want* my next horse to be an OTTB. I'll offer my case as an example, but it points to one additional thing...

I agree: Get your ducks (evidence) in a row, scope it out with the USEF before hand and then file the protest. You will feel better, and so will other people who hate watching these threads pop up....

I think it's very, very hard to make a living that's satisfying-- emotionally and financially-- if you aren't at the top in this industry.

I think the key to getting to some top is (in this order)...

Late to the party, but can I rant anyway?

To the OP: I don't care what anyone else does, what the USEF lists as illegal (read: can test for), if you are drugging a green horse in order to make him...

"I hold three doctorates and I paid good money to a "horse trainer" who has no credentials to speak of.... who now insists that I can't take water breaks during my lesson. What is the world coming...

Didn't think those could be combined, didya? I'm going to try a modified loading dose: 4 injections once per week.

According to my vet, Luitpold (the manufacturer) originally recommended 1 vile...

The vet around the barn I worked in as a kidlet put it this way:

Why vaccinate against things like rabies and tetanus? Because they are horrible ways to die for want of a $20 vaccine.

She...

To answer the question that started it all and put my money where my mouth is, I'd say: No, pure neatsfoot, judiciously, skillfully applied to new new-fangled leather is fine.

And to back that up,...

Think about IrishWillow and wanderlust's posts and ask your vet just *what* about this arthritis plus the horse's age signal something other than a part of the horse that will need maintenance. You...

I do this and it's great partly because it makes me a better trainer of my own horse (I'm an ammy).

Here's what makes it work:

I know a lot about my horse does and does not know. I know a lot...

I know you want to be squeaky clean for all, but technically you work for the seller, not the buyer. So if the buyer gets ripped off, that's not your deal. They are paying their experts to make sure...

First, why not have the mid-trainer pay the shipping costs? She ought to pay you up front and then bet she will recover that in her commission. If she's making money, she can spend some.

Or have...

I think there's truthful, there's blunt, and then there's mean spirited.

In the '80s GM made a remark that was stunningly mean-spirited, so much so that I can quote part of it verbatim: ".......

It may make the scared human feel confident.

I'm sure the threat of being yanked over does not help the horse feel confident.

At the end of the day, do you want to be a clueless rider on a...

I have soaked up GM, too. The other day I was looking at a picture of my beast showing at an indoor venue and noticed that he was shiny even on his belly near the girth. As it should be, thanks to...