NeilM
Well-Known Member
You know how it goes, you have week after week of really nice late afternoon hacks around the woods, you're able to commune quietly with nature, the birds the trees you horse, and then there are the OTHER rides.
All was going well this evening, we were out on our own, which is not a problem these days, as all traces of nappy / spooky behaviour have long been left behind....I thought!
On a long slight slope, which is a bit too rocky for anything but a nice walking pace, all of a sudden H puts in a little rear and starts spinning, cantering on the spot, chucking his head around, reversing into trees, the whole works. I steady him and try to work out what the four by two has set this off. Then I see / hear a whole herd of bloody cows charging through a huge field we are next to, oh great
After three or four 'nappy moments' I finally manage to get off (the safest course of action when he's this wound up). We walk to a point where we can see the nice moo cows all wandering towards the farm. Look H, COWS
The double trouble is that the path we are on is a favourite cantering spot of ours, so wound up tighter than a drum AND being led in hand is not going down well. But he does what he is asked (as always) and we manage to get to the end, I remount and walk him back to the scary spot, we turn, I sit, shorten the reins and squeeze and we out accelerate any F1 car on the grid
Between the woods and home we encountered, flappy pigeons, cue tap dancing pony, blowy flappy trees, more tap dancing and then while trotting towards our field a REALLY scary monster, that looked to me like an old lady in a light blue jumper and cream skirt. We did a great transition from trot to tap dancing canter on the spot back to perfect trot, then just to finish the whole thing, we come across a car speeding round a bend right by the entrance to the field AND the blue and cream monster both at the same time, OH JOY!
So, he's back in the field having had a lovely work out and the muscles in my right hand are tired (he always spins left).
On the plus side, BOY! My little guy can gallop when he's ....motivated
All was going well this evening, we were out on our own, which is not a problem these days, as all traces of nappy / spooky behaviour have long been left behind....I thought!
On a long slight slope, which is a bit too rocky for anything but a nice walking pace, all of a sudden H puts in a little rear and starts spinning, cantering on the spot, chucking his head around, reversing into trees, the whole works. I steady him and try to work out what the four by two has set this off. Then I see / hear a whole herd of bloody cows charging through a huge field we are next to, oh great
After three or four 'nappy moments' I finally manage to get off (the safest course of action when he's this wound up). We walk to a point where we can see the nice moo cows all wandering towards the farm. Look H, COWS
Between the woods and home we encountered, flappy pigeons, cue tap dancing pony, blowy flappy trees, more tap dancing and then while trotting towards our field a REALLY scary monster, that looked to me like an old lady in a light blue jumper and cream skirt. We did a great transition from trot to tap dancing canter on the spot back to perfect trot, then just to finish the whole thing, we come across a car speeding round a bend right by the entrance to the field AND the blue and cream monster both at the same time, OH JOY!
So, he's back in the field having had a lovely work out and the muscles in my right hand are tired (he always spins left).
On the plus side, BOY! My little guy can gallop when he's ....motivated
