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A bit of a pointless post. Some of you may remember me posting a while ago about my worries of hacking out alone on my very nappy young mare.
Well I was sat at college all day today looking at the lovely weather just wanting to go for a ride. So I got home and decided to be really brave/stupid and took her out on her own for the first ever time. She didn't put a foot wrong, even when the very load bird scarer went off, twice!! We even had a little trot.
So am very happy and just had to tell someone
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well done you!
i'm sure i'm not the only reader to appreciate the high you can get from just getting back from a hack in one piece, and better still for your 'crazy' horse to have behaved like an angel!
some of us have to hack alone - we have no choice - even on stroppy youngsters!
so take sensible precautions (mobile phone, body protector, high viz,neck strap!) and think positive.
my mare was extremely sharp as a youngster and at times i was scared to go out but had to do it - the more we hacked out the better she got and the more relaxed and trusting i got - so enjoy!
Anyhow calm, warm weather seems to be arriving - i find the 3 horses i have in the winter (the daft, spooky, sharp ones) go away for the summer and are replaced by 3 much calmer, more sensible ones. so make the most of it, by next winter she'll probably be fine!
 
Thanks Perce, that sounds positive. I really want to try and get her going out alone consitantly this summer so that I don't have to bore her in the school!
 
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