kirstyhen
Well-Known Member
Moot has had a fairly chilled out winter, only been out competing once (and managed a shiny blue ribbon!), we've spent our time working on her flatwork and letting her go hunting as a wee treat.
I've been giving her some big fences to get her teeth into, also making them wider as wide fences give me the collywobbles!
She is now officially 7 (although her actual birth date isn't for a few months yet) and I feel she has really 'grown up' these last few months.
We had a couple of really fab days out hopping big hedges and post and rail, but someone
managed to pick up mud fever and the socking great spilt got infected, so I had a lame pony for a few weeks. Antibiotics sorted her out and she came back into work where she left off, despite having been on box rest for two weeks and there being lots of snow about, she didn't put a foot wrong when I hopped back on 
(She wasn't so restrained in the field!)
She has been working really well, but last week she turned into a raging drama queen (Sascha Fierce came out to play!) and I couldn't get anything out of her except her trying to rear or throw herself on the floor. She hasn't had her wolf teeth out, so I suspected they might be the root of the problem, but it was all a bit random. So we had a lesson booked at Jeanette's on Monday, so thought we'd see what she thought. As suspected, Mally completely showed me up
I spent 10 minutes saying how she had been, then proceeded to warm up the most angelic pony ever! So I suspect we were both just having an off week, so our normal crap bits were made awful by neither of us being able to make up for the other ones lacking!
So a few videos of our lesson on my spangly new video camera...
This is right at the start of the lesson, she is becoming much more consistent in the contact and I am getting better at riding her forwards rather than making her short and tense. Tail swishing has reduced greatly now and she occasionally even breaths in canter!!!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJEybm85UWY
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bRWh4XnmonU&feature=plcp
And then our last round of jumps, the related distance down the far side is 5 normal strides, but Mally and I would much rather shorten and stick 6 strides in, so we have to over egg riding down it to get the 5 in
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DsiwlqMsfmk&feature=plcp
So we appear to be back on track, Jeanette comes to ours on Monday, so we can make sure everything is back in order, then it's full steam ahead to Oasby for our first run! There are also fairly solid plans in place for our first Novice run, hopefully the weather won't ruin those plans again!
I've been giving her some big fences to get her teeth into, also making them wider as wide fences give me the collywobbles!
She is now officially 7 (although her actual birth date isn't for a few months yet) and I feel she has really 'grown up' these last few months.
We had a couple of really fab days out hopping big hedges and post and rail, but someone
managed to pick up mud fever and the socking great spilt got infected, so I had a lame pony for a few weeks. Antibiotics sorted her out and she came back into work where she left off, despite having been on box rest for two weeks and there being lots of snow about, she didn't put a foot wrong when I hopped back on
(She wasn't so restrained in the field!)
She has been working really well, but last week she turned into a raging drama queen (Sascha Fierce came out to play!) and I couldn't get anything out of her except her trying to rear or throw herself on the floor. She hasn't had her wolf teeth out, so I suspected they might be the root of the problem, but it was all a bit random. So we had a lesson booked at Jeanette's on Monday, so thought we'd see what she thought. As suspected, Mally completely showed me up
I spent 10 minutes saying how she had been, then proceeded to warm up the most angelic pony ever! So I suspect we were both just having an off week, so our normal crap bits were made awful by neither of us being able to make up for the other ones lacking!
So a few videos of our lesson on my spangly new video camera...
This is right at the start of the lesson, she is becoming much more consistent in the contact and I am getting better at riding her forwards rather than making her short and tense. Tail swishing has reduced greatly now and she occasionally even breaths in canter!!!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJEybm85UWY
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bRWh4XnmonU&feature=plcp
And then our last round of jumps, the related distance down the far side is 5 normal strides, but Mally and I would much rather shorten and stick 6 strides in, so we have to over egg riding down it to get the 5 in
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DsiwlqMsfmk&feature=plcp
So we appear to be back on track, Jeanette comes to ours on Monday, so we can make sure everything is back in order, then it's full steam ahead to Oasby for our first run! There are also fairly solid plans in place for our first Novice run, hopefully the weather won't ruin those plans again!
gotta love the slow maturing Irish ones!
