she looks lovely! my boy did the bottom part of his jaw, the 'mandible' i think is the correct term, did wonder if it does impact his weight, as he gets quite light over the winter...but he currently resembles a hippo so don't think its that! but mines a tb so blaming that!
Her name is Maesmynach Alw (Alw usually) I bought her at rising 3 directly from the stud last year. I started her last autumn then turned away and picked her back up again at the end of March this year. She is mostly hacking but I am also trying to school her more formally either on 1 of our hacks or in the field. We don't have a school at home but we do have lots of hills and open country 
Huge success yesterday as we managed to do an improved (though probably egg shaped) circle on the right rein in the field at home. She definately finds the RR harder but she genuinely did manage to bend without falling out through the shoulder. We managed some lovely walk to halt transitions too. Very happy with that. Also showing first steps of leg yield!! Hoooray!!!! I literally only work Alw for 20-30 minutes if I am asking for specific things so I have to be very clear about what I am planning to do. She has 'Welsh' moments too.... I have booked her first formal lesson for 1st June which will involve a very short (10 minute) trip in the trailer. So far she is super happy and cool about loading but we can take as much time as is needed over all these small things. I am so enjoying my little mare 
Not the most flattering pics of my youngster who is now 4 and for some reason all the ones of her with tack won't load/! View attachment 47729View attachment 47730View attachment 47731 Her name is Maesmynach Alw (Alw usually) I bought her at rising 3 directly from the stud last year. I started her last autumn then turned away and picked her back up again at the end of March this year. She is mostly hacking but I am also trying to school her more formally either on 1 of our hacks or in the field. We don't have a school at home but we do have lots of hills and open country
pretty girl you've got there palo
I love her. When I bought her, she was the cheaper of the two horses I really liked, mainly because her natural paces are probably not what a more ambitious eventer/dressage rider would choose but I thought she would be good enough for me. The stud also, very honestly explained to me that she was not as flashy as many people like and 'plainer' and more traditional. I don't think any of those things are bad in this particular instance!! 
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I'm going to add my sister's 4yr old in, he's a 2nd generation home bred and we've had numerous other relatives (he's related to all of mine, bar the mule
This is Jet. He is Fabrice Van Overis x West Fleetwater Opposition. He was backed last year and has just started up again. He's a bit of a monkey, but hopefully he'll be a fun horse
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Phwoar, what a stunner!I'm going to add my sister's 4yr old in, he's a 2nd generation home bred and we've had numerous other relatives (he's related to all of mine, bar the mule
This is Jet. He is Fabrice Van Overis x Weston Justice x Fleetwater Opposition. He was backed last year and has just started up again. He's a bit of a monkey, but hopefully he'll be a fun horse
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Really chuffed with my little mare this week - no big developments really but feeling rock solid in all the basics including handling and loading ( we did our first trailer journey round the block and she was cool about that) and yesterday she was happy to pop 3 tiny (2 foot or less) jumps on the common including a fallen (slightly propped up on a rock!) wooden 5 bar gate. Though the jumps are tiny, tiddly her attitude was fab (Me: shall we just pop over this small obstacle ? Her: Dunno, um yes, let's give it a go then! ) and she seems to have a good technique. I am pleased with that as I would like to include a bit more jumping in our activities ) She has only been in any kind of arena as a young horse where she was born. This version of arena will represent quite a significant new environment for her so if we are able to include walk and trot in any kind of sensible fashion and get some feedback from the instructor I will be delighted!! If we only manage to spook and leap round the arena that is fine too as I can see just how many monsters there are for her in that setting
Apparently it was a very windy day but Chilli doesn't look bothered.That's exciting Palo (though hopefully not too exciting!).
It's been the opposite for Chilli - with the lockdown in Spain he had to start everything in the arena. He's now though and his trainer sent this video yesterday. He tried to video call me but unfortunately I was on a work video conference so had to make do with the video
Young horses are wonderful aren't they?!
He is so beautiful - you must be wildly excited about the future with him
(luckily it's a dead end...). Chilli is very brave, when I've taken him for walks in-hand he tends to want to go and investigate anything scary. Love his attitude!!
I took my mare for her first ever arena/instruction this morning and she was fab about all the strange new things and was so cool about it but we had to call the session short as the instructor could see that poor Alw is a bit shuffly/pottery in trot.(She is unshod) There was no point in continuing so we discussed plans and got to know each other a bit better. I have called the farrier and he will be over at the end of the week to look, trim and possibly put front shoes on. It's not something I am particularly keen to do but she has generally good feet, I certainly don't want her sore and I do want to gently keep going with her. Our others are unshod and both the farrier and I felt it was unlikely she would need shoes but her feet do now look very worn and need re-balancing now. Hopefully farrier will be able to sort her out She was such a good girl and I was thrilled to have access to a school and an instructor so it was really quite a good session.