showpony
Well-Known Member
Apologies if this comes across as gushy but am still on a high from earlier!!!
So am doing first " Proper " HT on Monday on my Mare & its taken nearly 2 yrs to get me to this stage ....
So training went great during the week & after lesson the other day my Instructor suggested making most of outing & also doing pairs with a very good friend of mine.... thankfully she agreed..
So today we walked course together & agreed on plan of action & then headed back to yard via Fruit & Veg shop to pick up couple pumpkins as we were told by organiser fence No1 will have a row of pumpkins underneath lol so we wanted to introduce the horses to them in advance...
We spent a bit of time working on trotting & cantering to establish pace together etc before starting to jump & then we just kicked on with jumping the course rather than practicing over indivdual fences as tried to emulate what it will be like on the day - OMG both horses were total rockstars... after a short break made up different course & both were hoof perfect, well appart from my Mare nearly falling up the bank...
My Mare was in front & WOW totally settled as had company & my friends horse was loving getting to follow his girlfriend so didn't get strong or look at anything EVEN the pumpkins.....
2 Very happy riders - finished off session with walking around on the buckle... Days like today where EVERYTHING goes perfect are few and far between...
I was a bit nervous of letting my friend down as I was in front but for some reason my nerves didn't kick in as I thoroughly enjoyed having the company and it gave me confidence !! So thank you to that particular person, hopefully she reads this Think we are going to have loads of fun on Monday
So am doing first " Proper " HT on Monday on my Mare & its taken nearly 2 yrs to get me to this stage ....
So training went great during the week & after lesson the other day my Instructor suggested making most of outing & also doing pairs with a very good friend of mine.... thankfully she agreed..
So today we walked course together & agreed on plan of action & then headed back to yard via Fruit & Veg shop to pick up couple pumpkins as we were told by organiser fence No1 will have a row of pumpkins underneath lol so we wanted to introduce the horses to them in advance...We spent a bit of time working on trotting & cantering to establish pace together etc before starting to jump & then we just kicked on with jumping the course rather than practicing over indivdual fences as tried to emulate what it will be like on the day - OMG both horses were total rockstars... after a short break made up different course & both were hoof perfect, well appart from my Mare nearly falling up the bank...
My Mare was in front & WOW totally settled as had company & my friends horse was loving getting to follow his girlfriend so didn't get strong or look at anything EVEN the pumpkins.....
2 Very happy riders - finished off session with walking around on the buckle... Days like today where EVERYTHING goes perfect are few and far between...
I was a bit nervous of letting my friend down as I was in front but for some reason my nerves didn't kick in as I thoroughly enjoyed having the company and it gave me confidence !! So thank you to that particular person, hopefully she reads this
Think we are going to have loads of fun on Monday
