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Today was our lesson with Geoff Luckett, which was scheduled to be held at his place which is about 30 minutes away from my yard. However, due to the rain last week it was re-scheduled to Weston Lawns, a good 1 and 1/2 hours away *yawn*
Hey ho, got up at stupid oclock with mother in tow, and went to the yard. Got 4 mucked out, 2 put out, two on the walker and loaded the lorry.
Set off just after 8:30am and headed towards the M1.
Traffic was great, and we had a smooth run all the way, arriving just around 10am.
The facilities at Weston Lawns are fantatsic, lots of arenas with great viewing.
Anyway, Snoop travelled well, and off loaded and tied him up with his hay - he was far more interested in my sandwich than his hay.
Went off to see how Nicky was getting on with the most stunning horse ever *Ross* He is the same age as snoopy, but a strapping 17.2!!! and with just as much attitude.
Anyway, looked like they were working over grids, with poles over each stride, incorperating V poles for straightness.
I tacked the boy up quickly and hopped on half expecting him to act up like the past 3 days, but nothing, a complete lamb!
Waltz into the arena and introduced himself
We warmed up as Geoff looked on. Snoop settled well, quite quickly and started to work nicely, although still onward from yesterdays xc exploits.
Geoff asked us to canter smaller circles to gain more control and keep the canter short. This worked well until i came round a corner and a fence was in our way, little sausage was off lol took a bit to take him off the fence lol
We continued, and then went on to jumping over a small x pole, from trot. All fine, and G told us that would be the last time we would trot today lol - must be a show jumping thing
Canter poles (3) infront of the first x pole and poles there after to further fences which were put up later.
The next time i came in canter i struggled round the corner so geoff put two further poles out to act as a funnel.
This really worked, he also gave me some tips on how to improve the canter round the corner which i will practise this week.
The fences started to get slightly bigger, and snoop was answering every thing. G was impressed with how bright he was, he also thought, that snoop thought he was a stallion LOL
Anyway, on then to a fairly imposing looking oxer with two V poles - I was under instruction to get this perfect, and perfect we did
I would LOVE to see the photos as he jumped it amazingly well - the vid didnt quite show HOW brilliantly he got in the air.
Well G thought that we should leave it there, as he had jumped so well - but Horse Mag wanted us to go again so they could take more photos, so we did lol as it felt so good the time before
Well we went a further two times, and although it wasnt as BRILLIANT as the time before, they were still good and I think they got loads sequence photos which was what they were after.
We finished and I was dead chuffed.
Will try and upload some sort of vid later this week.
Hey ho, got up at stupid oclock with mother in tow, and went to the yard. Got 4 mucked out, 2 put out, two on the walker and loaded the lorry.
Set off just after 8:30am and headed towards the M1.
Traffic was great, and we had a smooth run all the way, arriving just around 10am.
The facilities at Weston Lawns are fantatsic, lots of arenas with great viewing.
Anyway, Snoop travelled well, and off loaded and tied him up with his hay - he was far more interested in my sandwich than his hay.
Went off to see how Nicky was getting on with the most stunning horse ever *Ross* He is the same age as snoopy, but a strapping 17.2!!! and with just as much attitude.
Anyway, looked like they were working over grids, with poles over each stride, incorperating V poles for straightness.
I tacked the boy up quickly and hopped on half expecting him to act up like the past 3 days, but nothing, a complete lamb!
Waltz into the arena and introduced himself
We warmed up as Geoff looked on. Snoop settled well, quite quickly and started to work nicely, although still onward from yesterdays xc exploits.
Geoff asked us to canter smaller circles to gain more control and keep the canter short. This worked well until i came round a corner and a fence was in our way, little sausage was off lol took a bit to take him off the fence lol
We continued, and then went on to jumping over a small x pole, from trot. All fine, and G told us that would be the last time we would trot today lol - must be a show jumping thing
Canter poles (3) infront of the first x pole and poles there after to further fences which were put up later.
The next time i came in canter i struggled round the corner so geoff put two further poles out to act as a funnel.
This really worked, he also gave me some tips on how to improve the canter round the corner which i will practise this week.
The fences started to get slightly bigger, and snoop was answering every thing. G was impressed with how bright he was, he also thought, that snoop thought he was a stallion LOL
Anyway, on then to a fairly imposing looking oxer with two V poles - I was under instruction to get this perfect, and perfect we did
Well G thought that we should leave it there, as he had jumped so well - but Horse Mag wanted us to go again so they could take more photos, so we did lol as it felt so good the time before
Well we went a further two times, and although it wasnt as BRILLIANT as the time before, they were still good and I think they got loads sequence photos which was what they were after.
We finished and I was dead chuffed.
Will try and upload some sort of vid later this week.
