LaurenBay
Well-Known Member
Today it has been 1 year since I got Ruby vetted and brought home! Looking back over the year, I realise how much I have learnt and how much confidence I have gained and I owe it all to my lovely Ruby. We haven't had the best of luck as we discovered she has a problem with her stifle. She seems to be improving though (after physio and steriod injections) and we are taking things slow. So Hopefully throughout the next year, I can continue to get her fit and perhaps do some local shows if shes up to it.
I didn't even want to go and view Ruby, she sounded ok. But my YO'S mum kept insisting I go as she had a good feeling about this one (I was looking for a 15h bay gelding) so I arranged a viewing. I turned up to see a very fluffy, slightly underweight Horse with some skin missing from her head (she had run into a tree) she seemed nice enough so I got on. The moment I knew she was the one, is when we went into a big open field and I was able to walk and trot in there (I have a big fear of open spaces and had only just worked up the courage to trot my share Horse in a field after 2 years!) I felt so safe and knew she would look after me. I viewed her twice more then got her vetted. On the 3rd May she came home! Enough rambling now, heres the photos...
The day she arrived (the skin had grown back by then)
After one of our first hacks together
First schooling session
I began teaching her how to lunge and longrein
She began to get fitter
Then the problems started and her saddle no longer fitted. We done 3 months of inhand walking and a few bareback hacks
I got my new saddle, so I clipped Ruby. My very first attempt at clipping. It didn't well but Ruby was an angel!
I am now trying to get her fit again, we are hacking 2-3 times a week and schooling 1-2 a week (in walk and trot only)
Heres just some more photos
With her buddy Lazlo
With her best friend Nelly (the Horse I used to share)
With her friend Brook (whos sadly not with us anymore
)
Choccy biscuits if you got this far!!
Got rid of the fluff and began to teach her how to lunge and longrein
I didn't even want to go and view Ruby, she sounded ok. But my YO'S mum kept insisting I go as she had a good feeling about this one (I was looking for a 15h bay gelding) so I arranged a viewing. I turned up to see a very fluffy, slightly underweight Horse with some skin missing from her head (she had run into a tree) she seemed nice enough so I got on. The moment I knew she was the one, is when we went into a big open field and I was able to walk and trot in there (I have a big fear of open spaces and had only just worked up the courage to trot my share Horse in a field after 2 years!) I felt so safe and knew she would look after me. I viewed her twice more then got her vetted. On the 3rd May she came home! Enough rambling now, heres the photos...
The day she arrived (the skin had grown back by then)
After one of our first hacks together
First schooling session
I began teaching her how to lunge and longrein
She began to get fitter
Then the problems started and her saddle no longer fitted. We done 3 months of inhand walking and a few bareback hacks
I got my new saddle, so I clipped Ruby. My very first attempt at clipping. It didn't well but Ruby was an angel!
I am now trying to get her fit again, we are hacking 2-3 times a week and schooling 1-2 a week (in walk and trot only)
Heres just some more photos
With her buddy Lazlo
With her best friend Nelly (the Horse I used to share)
With her friend Brook (whos sadly not with us anymore
)
Choccy biscuits if you got this far!!
Got rid of the fluff and began to teach her how to lunge and longrein
. She looks very happy in all her photos!
