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Earnsdale Farm
Riding School
Duddon Avenue
Darwen
Lancashire
BB3 OLB

Dougie

Dougie is a 16.2 hh, grey Hanoviarian Gelding.

Dougie has been at Earnsdale Farm Riding School for two years. He has a very calm temperament and has excellent stable manners like all the animals at Earnsdale Farm.

Dougie is always anxious to please his rider and has not a naughty thought in his head. Dougie has big, elastic strides, covering a lot of ground in his strides. He is ridden by our students working for BHS examinations and is very popular amongst them. He is very good in his flat work and has a good steady jump over fences.

Dougie has a stringhalt problem which is fairly pronounced as he comes out of his stable at first, then becomes hardly noticeable at all after he has worked in. He was given to the Riding School by Julie Hale, who still comes to visit him every so often and asks about him regularly.

Dougie is so calm he is very popular with novice riders but usually beginners need to get established on other, less springy horses first. However, occasionally we have to start a beginner on Dougie if the client is over 14 stone and/or over 6'2".

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