Local Riding Blog

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Local Riding - Your Horse Riding Equestrian Reference

Local Riding - A unique horse riding and equestrian reference exploring the wealth of local equestrian facilities. Providing horse training tips and horse health advice for you and your horse.

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Horse Strangles - Horse Health Advice

Why horse strangles occurs. What are the symptoms and how equine strangles can be prevented or treated

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Groundwork Basics | Horse Training

Horse training tips and techniques. Groundwork Basics and the skills you need to improve both your horse and your groundwork training techniques

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LOCAL RIDING SPOTLIGHT ... Horse Riding in London

It would be perfectly understandable if you thought horse riding and equestrian facilities were scarce in the London area. After all, at first site it does appear to be one large traffic filled urban sprawl, but there are also beautiful parks and other green places in London, where horse owners have ridden for centuries.

Hyde Park itself has around five miles of bridleways and there are a wide variety of equestrian centres offering riding lessons and livery services in and around central London.

Hyde Park Stables offers horse riding beside the Serpentine Lake, in the most beautiful setting for horse riding in a Capital City anywhere in the world.

Belmont Carriage Driving is a carriage driving school and livery yard set in 200 acres of parkland in Mill Hill, North London and Wimbledon Village Stables is a British Horse Society, Where-to-Train-Centre and ABRS Approved riding school with happy well trained horses and ponies who ride over the trails of Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park. And situated among the 5,000 acres of the Windsor Great Park is the Windsor Park Equestrian Club. You really won't believe you are so close to Central London.

So, if you come to London to see the sights, to revel in the history and enjoy the pomp and circumstance, you can also enjoy your most favourite thing.

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Buying A Horse with Potential - A little practical advice

Think long and hard before buying a horse that is advertised as having potential ... Potential to go far, Terrific Potential in the Right Hands, Potential Dressage Star.

We continually see horse for sale ads that include some of the above terms and feel it is important for you to realise that you should only buy a horse with potential if you have the ability to bring out the full potential of the horse.

Buying potential is a gamble nothing less and nothing more. You will have to invest significant time and training and a lot more money before you see that potential realised.

So, always compare that potential with the price of a fully trained horse that has a few ribbons under its bridle, and always assess your own goals and your own horse training ability before you start dreaming about a potential finished product.

And; always, always, always, ride any horse that's advertised as having potential on at least three separate occasions. Making sure you do so on different days of the week and at different times of the day to get an overall picture of what that potential truly is and how much work will be involved in bringing it out.

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Horse Training Tips and Techniques.

Horse training - the ground rules, the skills, tips and techniques to improve both the horse and rider. Set and achieve training goals and build the horse you want.

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Riding In A Double Bridle - The rights and wrongs

What to Consider When Working a Horse in a Double Bridle. The double bridle is a sophisticated tool and like any other complicated piece of equipment has no place in the hands of a beginner.

The double bridle should only be introduced gradually, after established work has been completed in the snaffle bridle. It should never be put onto the horse on the day of a show or only used when showing.

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Do You Know How to Measure Your Horses' Weight?

Knowing your horses weight, at least approximately, can be very helpful for such simple things as calculating feed amounts and knowing how much wormer to administer. If you don't have access to livestock scales there are other ways to measure with reasonable accuracy. We've also included hh to cms conversion charts here, to help you out.

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Equine Mud Fever and Horse Health Advice

Equine Mud Fever - What is mud fever in horses. What Causes it, how do you prevent it and how do you treat it.

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Focus on Eventing - The Showjumping Phase

The showjumping phase of eventing is traditionally the final phase and is used to test the athleticism of the horse ...

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