Equestrian
Dressage rider enjoys new pastures By Jade Leahy Dressage rider Yasmin Dadkahar and her fiancé farrier Sam Wilkes are enjoying a change of rein – running an award-winning glamping site. The pair offer the chance to be at one with nature in luxurious accommodation that won a hattrick of Visit England awards last year. Their glamping site, Loose Small bale hay & small bale wheat straw. Collect or delivered. 07980147019 01747870360
Reins in Shillingstone, is tucked away in a coombe, with a backdrop slightly reminiscent of Canada. There are three ranch-style cabins that sleep four, with kitchen, bathroom and log burner, and log burner, and three luxury canvas lodges that sleep six. Guests have a chance to experience farm life and children join in The Buckaroo Club, caring for resident sheep and chickens. Competitive rider Yasmin began her career in saddle with The Pony Club before a
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degree in psychology. Through joining a stallion station in Germany, as a show jumper and flat work rider, she soon discovered working with high calibre dressage horses more than equalled the buzz of a jump off. Yasmin has a track record of bringing on high quality horses, having trained her horse Dragunov to Grand Prix level. Her horse NikNak
was intermediate and came third at the nationals in the Bronze section aged 23. Her focus now is on DS Foenix, her aspiring international dressage horse, who boasts multiple Grand Prix bloodlines, that she hopes to compete when she is rising 10. Not content with bringing on high quality horses for the competition market, Yasmin intends to shape bloodlines of the future with her Hanoverian colt Don Weltraum standing at stud next year. We are also likely to see Yasmin producing a dressage star with embryos from Don Foenix next year. Yasmin and Sam also plan to develop an equine rehabilitation centre at Loose Reins, with veterinary and farriery clinics.
Top tips for keeping horses By Gibbs Marsh Equine A small independent equine practice based just outside Stalbridge Here are our top tips to support your horses general health and immune system at this time of year. Vaccinations – influenza and tetanus vaccines are important to support the immune system and avoid unwanted challenges. The influenza vaccination
schedule starts with two injections around a month apart, followed by a booster six months after that. Some competitions require six-monthly vaccinations and your vet can advise on this. It is just as important to vaccinate horses who live alone and companions. Tetanus is often a life threatening and is easy to protect against.
