I have just been watching the Royal Welsh show online here and thought Id share the link if anyone is interested.
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Pixel ·
18/07/2011 16:36
Thanks, am watching now, wish I knew more than 4 words of welsh. 
Shame my sister has gone back to work today after her holiday, she'd have loved this as she has always had welshies and her current one did well at the Royal in his far-off youth. Do you know what time it finishes?
Disasterpiece ·
18/07/2011 19:16
Sorry dont know much about it, I was watching the ride judge on the Sec C stallions earlier. Jeez they can gallop!
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annieapple7 ·
18/07/2011 22:14
I was there today it is a fab show. I watched the ridden cobs and blimey they were fat - bellies wobbling as they trotted round (like me then). Cobs shouldn't be that fat surely - their bottoms were like apples - isn't that risking laminitis I wonder?
I am of course used to sleek thoroughbreds
Disasterpiece ·
18/07/2011 23:18
They are all fat. The show ponies, the welshies, the hunters, workers, cobs everything! All way too much weight on them.
As Saggy says, its become fashionable to have them overweight to hide the fact they havent got any proper muscle. Instead of building up their muscles through their neck, back and bottom through proper work they over feed them and whack a curb rein on.
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BathildaSaggshot ·
18/07/2011 23:33
A good layer of fat hides a multitude of sins! And a nice blubbery crest makes you look like you are on the bit! 
Disasterpiece ·
18/07/2011 23:45
Its horrible when you see these little Sec.A LR ponies that look more like thellwell ponies
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Pixel ·
19/07/2011 18:57
Ooh shame I missed it, I had to go shopping for teacher pressies. The only bits I managed to see yesterday were some pony club teams careering round the main arena with most on the verge of bolting. Then when I looked again there were some hunters cantering sideways and bucking. Just as I said to dh "Is there anyone under control at this show?" a loose horse galloped past the camera with stirrups flying.
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