Croft Equine - Dentistry & Horse Sales

15/05/2024

🍀FRESH FROM IRELAND 🍀

What a handsome young man 😍

11/05/2024

⚠️TO ALL MY LOVELY CLIENTS ⚠️

🎖️BIG THINGS ARE HAPPENING 🎖️

I Have been quiet on here recently, just keeping my head down with all my regulars and keeping my horses ticking over for eventing.

Most of you will know I am currently working towards my Category 2 Practical exam, which will allow me to provide all of my clients with further knowledge and the most up to date levels of equine dental care, along with the option of using power tools going forward.

Having already PASSED ✅ my category 2 theory exam under WWAED (Worldwide Association of Equine Dentistry) at the first attempt, the process is well underway!

Thank you for your continued support in helping me achieve these goals ☺️

I look forward to providing updates on some of my case studies whilst I knuckle down on the home straight of this journey 🍀

31/12/2023

Wishing all of my Customers a Happy New Year, best wishes to you and your horsey companions for 2024.

Thank you for your continued support 🦄🎉🍾🥂

14/11/2023

🏆TOP EVENT PROSPECT 🏆

🔸16hh 2020 mare
🔸Sound, clean limbs, vice free
🔸Clean vet cert

06/10/2023

🌿Ivy Update 🌿

Lovely 3 year old by Lagans OBOS quality who was snapped up by the family that own her Dam (they didn't breed Ivy but love her mum so much they wanted her daughter too!)

They came across Ivy's advert by chance and saw their horses name on her pedigree, such a fab story.

Looking forward to more progress updates 👍

20/09/2023

✨HSF Canturo Lui ✨

🔸15.3hh 3 year old mare
🔸Full breeding recorded
🔸Unbacked, well handled
🔸Really lovely temperament
🔸Very talented and pretty
🔸Full history known

Lincoln

19/09/2023

✨Briony ✨

🔸Rustic Ridge (Tb) x Kiltealy Silver (ID)

🔸16hh 3 year old
🔸Truly fabulous young horse
🔸Bred for sport, she's the epitome of athletic
🔸Clean limbs
🔸Kind, inquisitive & just lovely

Clean vet cert
Lincoln

28/08/2023

⛔SOLD SOLD SOLD⛔
They don't stick around for long 😬😬

✨The lovely Ivy Arrive late Friday, chilled out Saturday, photoshoot Sunday and on her way to her new home today.

Wishing her the best of luck with the added bonus being reunited with her mum! Her owners purchased her dam a couple of years ago and have always wondered where her 2 foals were, well now they own one 🍀

Swipe for mid photoshoot apple eating 🍏😅

18/08/2023

👑🌟Chocolate Dun 🌟👑

🌷Fully Reg ISH breeding includes Canturo x Guidam
🌷Fabulous temperament
🌷Unbacked

Lincoln

17/12/2022

Do you know how sugar intake effects your equine friends?!

An interesting study being carried out by a Lincoln Uni student on grazing and how it affects your horses sugar intake 🐴🌱

Survey can be carried out on the link below 👇😀

Online survey BOS

16/11/2022

🍀Equine Dental Technician 🍀

🔸Limited availlbilty to add to existing client base

🔸Building advanced Case studies towards Cat 2 Exam

🔸Covering Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire & surrounding villages

🔸Knowledgeable, patient & reliable

🔸Fully insured

13/11/2022

🍀Equine Dental Technician 🍀

➡️Currently building advanced case studies towards Cat 2 Exam, so now looking at expanding my client base

🔸8 years experience hand floating
🔸Attended Basic & Advanced dentistry courses
🔸Recently attended 2 day Equine Dental conference
🔸Knowledgeable & experienced
🔸Fully insured

🔸Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire & surrounding villages

29/09/2022

Dot being as extra as ever. Feeling and looking fab 💪👌

27/09/2022

🎉South of England International 2* debut🎉

What a weekend. From 100 to 2* in less than a season.

Feeling very proud and even more so to finish with a clear Cross country round that presented technical combinations and undulating ground.

Finished 33rd out of approx 60 starters and already looking forward to what's next 🔝🔜

Plenty learnt and plenty more to learn

27/09/2022

🌠Tim 🌠

Fabulous 163cm 2019 gelding

Prince Flori (Tb) x Carrick Diamond Lad (Flagmount Diamond) x Leapman (Tb)

26/08/2022

So important. Well explained and an issue that so desperately needs addressing across the board if equestrianism 🤔

As a saddle fitter, one of the things I come across a lot in my job is where customers have searched the country high and low and purchased themselves a wonderful riding horse. They might have looked at the horse’s overall build and may have made an educated decision about whether the horse can carry their weight, but many really don’t know enough to make that call. However, even beyond that decision, can the horse carry the size of saddle that can carry you, the rider?

In the last 20 years, there has been a huge rise in the popularity of native ponies, cobs and native crosses– they have the bone to carry adult riders in so many cases, but people also believe that short backs can be much stronger. Coincidently horse breeders and showing judges have found short backed horses and ponies more pleasing to the eye, so horses have been bred to be even more compact. We all know that the population is getting heavier and taller, but we are also far heavier relative to our height than in the past.

This brings me to a significant saddle fitting dilemma, seen across the board with riding horses, native ponies and cobs. In some cases, the horse just can’t take a big enough saddle, period. As an example, traditional cobs have become incredibly popular, but their origins are as small draft horses, i.e. pulling carts. They are so often croup high and very short backed so even though they can be significant weight carriers they can only take small saddles. In recent months our fitters have come across: a 14.1 overgrown Section C which can only take a 14” saddle, a 15hh Irish cob who can only JUST take a 16.5” GP saddle and even a 16.2 Thoroughbred which could only take a 16.5” dressage saddle.

At AH Saddles we believe that there should be a standard checklist for people looking to buy a horse and a key thing should be: does my new horse’s conformation match my own to make us both comfy riding companions?

The first question is whether the horse can carry your weight, but it's just as important to determine how long the horse or pony’s ribcage is. If there isn’t space for the saddle you need, between the back edge of the horse or pony’s shoulder blade (never ON it!) and its last rib, then there is no magic solution.

Even saddles with longer seats and shorter panels aren’t a fix-all despite the impression that some companies give that seat size and panel length are simply interchangeable – there is always a trade-off. Either you have pressure issues under a smaller saddle (and especially on the back edge of the panel, hence shorter panels not always being a good idea), or you fit beyond the back rib. If you get it wrong, this can potentially impact both parties’ health over the years and therefore how long your horse will stay sound and be able to be ridden.

As an example, a traditional cob, xxw/6 fit, with a round barrel and croup high; the rider is 5’2” with short legs and weighs 13 stone. Not only might we struggle with the length of the ribcage, but short legs on very wide cobs can also mean the rider's knees are very far apart, which can cause hip and lower back pain. Wide twist saddles and short riders aren’t always a comfy combination.

23/08/2022

Lana as a schoolmistress 👀 who'd have thought it?!

My 15 year old novice cousin taking Lana through her pole work paces this evening 💪🤩

06/08/2022

Both the hombreds & Nanny 😅😍
Billy Congo x Ringfort Cruise (chestnut)
Holmes x Izard (spotty t shirt) 👀😏

05/08/2022

❗158cm 3 year old ISH Mare ❗

🔸Incredible movement
🔸Fab temperament
🔸Lovely technique over a fence

🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕Ono

04/08/2022

Dot enjoying being back in work. Still a bit porky 🐽🐷 and definitely not fit, but on our way!

26/07/2022

⚜️159cm ID X Tb 3 year old ⚜️

❗❗ADVERT POSTED TONIGHT❗❗

13/07/2022

🍀🤩 2019 Gelding by Yeats 🤩🍀

⚜️Incredible example of a modern sports horse
⚜️16.3hh
⚜️Clean vet cert

11/07/2022

3 year old 'Big Pete' proving just how lovely is is yet again! Even the transporter was impressed with his wonderful attitude to life.

Best of luck to his new owner Aimee 🍀🦄

09/07/2022

😱😍Wow wow wow 😍😱

🌟TRULY FABULOUS YOUNG MAN 🌟

🔸16.2/3hh 3 year old Gedling by the great YEATS 🍀

07/07/2022

This horse had been losing a little condition. With his head resting on a headstand you can see the incisors are naturally very gapped. The front teeth are being held apart by contact of the cheek teeth.... V- incisors are still present ( often very pronounced before the gap starts to form and then diminishes as the gap increases).
This severe incisor gapping is rarely seen in horses.
Gradual correction of the cheek teeth might be able to bring the incisors back into contact. Theses horses can eat hay, but have to use their lips to graze grass!

04/07/2022

💕Just some more Lana spam💕

This time from our second Novice at Eland 2 weeks ago, a fabulous double clear around their notoriously beefy and exciting Cross country.

It made this week's 1* look positively straight forward (which is wasn't!) 🤣

03/07/2022

💥Offchurch Bury 1* International 💥

Double clear, with just a few time faults to finish 9th in our international debut and a chance to showcase my beautiful tailcoat 👌

Torrential rain, interesting ground and a phenomenal horse. So proud of her, I'm sure the tricky ones are always the best 😍👏❤️

All made even better to have my little family here cheering me on (notably Pippa clapping and shouting 'well done mummy' before we'd even started 🤣)

Thanks as always to my lovely mum 👑

18/06/2022

The lovely Rory who left us a few weeks ago looking very happy in his new home

Look forward to more updates as he continues his journey 😊💚

09/06/2022

Big Pete making the most of his height 🍎🍏