Horse Show Preparation: Six Tips for Success
Six top tips for horse show preparation, from learning the rules to compiling a checklist. Learn them, remember them and they will help ensure your first or your next horse show goes exactly to plan.
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Sweet Spring Grass
As Spring approaches consider the effect of rich Spring grass on your horse or pony, particularly if it suffers from or is prone to health issues. Consider the benefit of those sweet sugars after a winter of hay but also the effects on turnout, laminitis, colic and of those frosty mornings.
Worming Programme 2020
RESPONSIBLE WORMING – MINIMISING CHEMICAL USE. A targeted worm control programme is better for your horse or pony. It’s better for our pasture and your paddock and it benefits the environment. It keeps your horse healthy and it’s usually more cost effective too.
Clipping Types – Why Clip & What Clip To Use
Horse owners clip their horses coat to make their horse more comfortable in work, to work for longer and to prevent overheating. Your horse will cool down and dry off much quicker without a full winter coat that traps the sweat & heat. So, what clipping style should you choose?
Grooming Your Horse: An Essential Part of Horse Care
Regular grooming allows us to promote good health and a shiny, short, healthy coat. It also provides an opportunity to go over our horse or pony from head to hoof, and helps us notice any abnormalities such as cuts, wounds, irritations or fevers that your horse may have.
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Wishing A Very Merry Christmas to all our livery clients, our suppliers, our staff and all their friends and families. We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2020.
Livery Photo Gallery
A selection of Newlands livery client photos, on the yard and out competing at dressage, eventing and showjumping competitions
Groundwork Training
Groundwork training skills, tips and techniques to improve both your horses manners and your handling. Set and achieve training goals and build the horse you want. Happy Hacker or Dressage superstar its all achievable if you begin the right way
Get Fit To Ride
Yes; mucking out, filling haynets, pooh picking and walking back and forth to the field will help with your general fitness. But yard chores can sometimes fix muscle groups in rigid positions and can over-develop your forearms or biceps on just one side. Making you over-use the rein or lean more on that side.
Horse Health Check: Daily Horse Health Tips
Just six simple, common sense, horse health checks that you can make a part of your daily routine and that you won’t even think about after a short while. But, they could make all the difference to your horses health and help make sure you don’t end up with large vet bills.