BronsonNutter
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It's been three months since Wilby last went out competing, due to uni, so we thought it was time for him to go out again to a party!
Last competition he looked like this:
So I returned home on friday to find this:
A very fat
and hairy Wibbles who's only hacked out with Mum D) and hasn't gone into a canter since the end of October, when I was last at home.
Photos from October:
(not sure why my leg is so far forward on that one...)
Anyway, I schooled him in the dark on friday night - took a while for him to work out how to canter again (mad flailing legs, followed by a series of broncs, then we were off!) but he was fine - schooled in the daylight on saturday (more 'wahey, canter!' broncing) so I was a bit worried about getting bronced off mid test on sunday!
Just did P10 and P14, seeing as asking him for any extended work without any proper schooling would probably be a bit pointless... Plus didn't want to ask for too much incase he went airborn Anyway, needn't have worried because he was so chilled out he was almost horizontal Lazy even There were a couple of moments where he wasn't quite balanced, and he tripped and broke in one canter (corrected, but still...) and the whole thing needed to be more forward, but he was very sweet and I can't ask for too much He got 60% in the first test and 64% in the second, not placed in either as far as I know, didn't hang around for results and my sheets are in the post.
Anyway, more pictures:
Constructive crit is always appreciated - just don't tell me he needs to actually be going anywhere because I already know that Especially advice as to how to stop myself looking like I'm trying to sit on top of my hands would be very useful, I'm not sure what they're doing
Last competition he looked like this:
So I returned home on friday to find this:
A very fat
and hairy Wibbles who's only hacked out with Mum D) and hasn't gone into a canter since the end of October, when I was last at home.Photos from October:
(not sure why my leg is so far forward on that one...)
Anyway, I schooled him in the dark on friday night - took a while for him to work out how to canter again (mad flailing legs, followed by a series of broncs, then we were off!) but he was fine - schooled in the daylight on saturday (more 'wahey, canter!' broncing
) so I was a bit worried about getting bronced off mid test on sunday!Just did P10 and P14, seeing as asking him for any extended work without any proper schooling would probably be a bit pointless... Plus didn't want to ask for too much incase he went airborn
Anyway, needn't have worried because he was so chilled out he was almost horizontal Lazy even There were a couple of moments where he wasn't quite balanced, and he tripped and broke in one canter (corrected, but still...) and the whole thing needed to be more forward, but he was very sweet and I can't ask for too much He got 60% in the first test and 64% in the second, not placed in either as far as I know, didn't hang around for results and my sheets are in the post. Anyway, more pictures:
Constructive crit is always appreciated - just don't tell me he needs to actually be going anywhere because I already know that
Especially advice as to how to stop myself looking like I'm trying to sit on top of my hands would be very useful, I'm not sure what they're doing
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