Interested in Roman Riding?

[John Conyard]

I would like to keep these thread ticking over as a repository for all things to do with Roman riding.

The hot weather in Yorkshire meant that what little grass we had went brown and the horses had little appetite or opportunity to put on weight. Hal lost condition after Sledmere and so our horses went on holiday to a nice green grassy field down the road. I groomed Hal a lot, and made a new head collor for him to secure a chamfron, but it was all a bit frustrating.

My pre-conceived ideas about who could ride what are as ever are proving incorrect. Luckily everybody apart from myself thought the show at Ribchester went really well, but the size of arena was really just too small.

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We have three cavalry events lft this year to get things right so it is back to basics in the sand school for the next week. Sadly we have one horse lame and another pregnant so numbers may be a problem for the rest of the year. By next year the younger horses will be trained but it is too soon to put them in the arena at present.

On a bright note we soon hope to be ordering a batch of new saddles.