The Lingfield Instructor Group

Plenty of areas in the UK have had some pretty poor weather over the last month. One of the things horse owners often struggle with is providing enough water.

If you find your horses has water buckets which are frozen in the morning you absolutely MUST provide them with two full buckets as soon as you arrive.  They need just as much water in the bad snowy icy weather as they do at other times of year.

Horses drink betwen 6 and 10 GALLONS of water a day - now that is a lot of water.  Do YOU know how much your water bucket holds?  If not go straight away and check it out.  Make sure you are providing enough water.

A horses body is made up of 50% water.  They need water for lots of things to help their body work and function properly.  They need water to enable their food to be digested properly and for the body to remove the nutrients from the food.  They can survive for longer without food than water.  No water for some days of course means certain death.

Special Offer to holders of BHS Horse Owner's Certificates at Level 2.

We now offer BHS Level 3 to those who achieved BHS Level 2 with another instructor.  From December 2009 we are giving a special discount on an Intermediate Diploma programme which combines the Lingfield Level 2 & 3 courses.

• The fee is just £297 for the two complete courses.

On completion the student is eligible to

• Sit the BHS Level 3 exam with Lingfield Correspondence.
• Achieve a Lingfield Certificate on completion of Lingfield Level 2
• Achieve an Intermediate Diploma on completion of the programme.

Students have the added advantage of being able to fast track the Lingfield Level 2 course element.

Intermediate Diploma programmes are all available by email.

Contact the office on 01398 - 37 11 77   or mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for an enrolment form.

This news piece is from Catherine Humphrey a student who has recently moved to Ontario, Canada. We hope soon to hear from her again with news on how the move itself went.   Thanks Catherine for your input, it is good to know how things work in other countries.

Keeping Horses In The Canadian Climate.  

When I first arrived in Canada, I realised that keeping horses here does not vary greatly from keeping horses in the UK. The same discussions and diverse opinions are held on most horsey issues, however I have found a few fundamental differences.

This includes horse boxes of over 3.5 tonnes.

An EU directive has brought in a new regulation stating that any vehicle registered after 1st January 2010 which is over 3.5 tonnes much now be fitted with a new wide angle mirror and a kerb mirror  For more details see www.prprescue.com for a little more information on this news section, follow the link below.