Niko in Boots!

These are Niko’s old Rhinegold tendon boots complete with fur but as you can see they have buckles instead of Velcro, not always a bad thing but they can be hard to fit so that they are not too tight but at the same time not going to slip and for everyday use it is a lot of trouble.

So I have purchased a full set of John Whitaker International tendon boots they are easy to put on with no slipping down and at the same time hard to put on too tight because they are Velcro. I also quite like the blue, I was hoping for white but they were out of stock.

Maybe we will be able to get Madeline a set in white but for now blue. They are pretty dirty in the photos as I have used them in mud and haven’t wiped them down yet, that is also one more plus they aren’t leather, as I am sure you can see, so don’t need as much care.

All in all a nice easy to use set of tendon boots that do the job well. I also bought a set of John Whitaker International bandages they are white and very nice but the boots are a lot easier to use as I haven’t used bandages before.

Tipper Turnout Rug

Recently I brought a load of new horsey stuff including Tipper’s turnout rug. So I don’t have one horribly long post I am going to have to split up lots of the things I have bought and have been doing into different posts. His new rug is from Rhinegold and I quite like it.

So here it is his new rug, at the moment the rug is cleaner than the horse, the rug is a great fit for Tipper and is a pretty warm rug too, it isn’t as fancy as Niko’s Rhinegold rug but if it gets to cold we can always double rug.

The rug has this great tartan padding on the inside, it is nice and soft and really builds heat always a good thing, the rug doesn’t have the tartan padding at the front so I think that must be to do with preventing rubbing on the shoulders.

The rug also, like most turn out rugs, has a fake sheepskin wither pad with a ring to attach a neck cover, I do have a matching neck cover that is made to go with the rug, complete with tartan padding on the inside, but I haven’t tried it on him yet so have no photos of it, I hope it fits.

I have also had another lesson today we worked on lot of stuff as always but especially improving my turns and working on keeping the horse straighter. Also my instructor will be coming to ride Niko tomorrow, they will ride him for a bit and then they will teach me on him for a bit, it should be interesting and it will be nice to see what dressage Niko can do with a more competent rider on board.

Also blogger isn’t always updating your blogs on my dashboard so sorry to those of you if I keep missing your posts.

Rugs and Rain

It’s has been raining, which is a good job too. It was starting to get really dry, and as we are hoping to move the horses we would like there to be a bit more grass for when they do move, but it seems that there are more stinging nettles growing then grass, well at least I get to show you some photo of the horses in rugs.

And here is Niko in his Rhinegold outdoor rug, it is such a nice rug or should I say it was such a nice rug, but the yard owners let a dog in to where we keep are rugs and so most of are rugs are damaged. Anyway this one of Niko’s has tears on the inside but it still does the job for now,

Here’s Madeline in her rug I can’t remember off the top of my head what make her rug is, still her rug did not get damaged by dogs but it is older then Niko’s rug which is why it has a couple of rips, and as you can see in the background little Murphy has no rug on at the moment because he has such a thick coat, but he does have a rug for when it gets really cold.

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Thank you all for your comments on my last post, and thank you all for having such faith in me.