AngelitoCaz
Well-Known Member
I thought I'd share the pictures of my fun ride on Saturday as I'm rather proud of my girl and some people wanted to see the traffic cone outfit.
We had an earlyish start so Tara was groomed, trimmed and wrapped up the night before, after despairing at the mane I'd trimmed by head torch, I got her head collar which she promptly stuck her own head in and marched me up the ramp, she's not a bad loader but usually takes some persuasion so that was a good start.
She was a bit keen when we got there and not to keen on standing still but not too bad, after convincing myself I wasn't going to die I got on and set off for the start with 5 others from my yard, to be greeted by a loose horse, cue lots of prancing around and me seriously considering there and then. Loose horse caught and set off, she didn't blink at all the other horses and other than being a bit fast for my liking was good. We trotted the first canter field and she didn't blink at the idiot galloping past and after retrieving the one horse in our group that tried to follow we braved a canter. Brakes were a little slow but there and I pushed on just enough to know there's a 5th gear I don't want to play with yet!
Rest of the ride was brilliant, if someone had told me even a week ago I could be trotting at the back of a group on a fun ride on the buckle I would haven't have believed them.
Onto the cross country jumps, only tiny but was please with her and myself, if a bit fast following so went again in the lead, had one refusal, brought her round again and no problem, then we took issue at a log we jumped fine before, canter to sliding stop and sideways teleport sideways in 0 seconds flat, I entirely credit staying on to my new jump saddle, unfortunately whacked my head off her neck in the process. Bless her she waited for me crawl back up her neck and waited for the others to jump more whilst I recovered from the dizziness/shock.
Somewhat recovered thought we'd better do the water and x pole for photos, so excuse my face in the following.
We can do extended trot
Cant tell if I'm smiling or grimacing
Trophy Injury
Overall I'm immensely proud of her, she's rising 5 and this was only her second outing!
ETA: Sorry about the giant photos, I'm surprised they showed up at all!
We had an earlyish start so Tara was groomed, trimmed and wrapped up the night before, after despairing at the mane I'd trimmed by head torch, I got her head collar which she promptly stuck her own head in and marched me up the ramp, she's not a bad loader but usually takes some persuasion so that was a good start.
She was a bit keen when we got there and not to keen on standing still but not too bad, after convincing myself I wasn't going to die I got on and set off for the start with 5 others from my yard, to be greeted by a loose horse, cue lots of prancing around and me seriously considering there and then. Loose horse caught and set off, she didn't blink at all the other horses and other than being a bit fast for my liking was good. We trotted the first canter field and she didn't blink at the idiot galloping past and after retrieving the one horse in our group that tried to follow we braved a canter. Brakes were a little slow but there and I pushed on just enough to know there's a 5th gear I don't want to play with yet!
Rest of the ride was brilliant, if someone had told me even a week ago I could be trotting at the back of a group on a fun ride on the buckle I would haven't have believed them.
Onto the cross country jumps, only tiny but was please with her and myself, if a bit fast following so went again in the lead, had one refusal, brought her round again and no problem, then we took issue at a log we jumped fine before, canter to sliding stop and sideways teleport sideways in 0 seconds flat, I entirely credit staying on to my new jump saddle, unfortunately whacked my head off her neck in the process. Bless her she waited for me crawl back up her neck and waited for the others to jump more whilst I recovered from the dizziness/shock.
Somewhat recovered thought we'd better do the water and x pole for photos, so excuse my face in the following.
We can do extended trot
Cant tell if I'm smiling or grimacing
Trophy Injury
Overall I'm immensely proud of her, she's rising 5 and this was only her second outing!
ETA: Sorry about the giant photos, I'm surprised they showed up at all!
