Last weekend in June Weekend Plans

[Ample Prosecco]

It's Thursday and I have been super busy.

Longish hack this morning with me on my YO's horse, and an HHOer on Lottie (who may choose to out herself but that is up to her). Fab ride to the 3 Shires Head (pictured in link).

3 shires head waterfall - Google Suche

Quite a few canters and the Full Lottie Experience (super enthusiastic and FAST!). Very rough, steep riding in parts, including a section our YO calls 'rock climbing on horse back', but Lottie is quite mountain goat like, so that was fine.

The a Joe Midgley lesson with the youngsters, which I will update the Joe thread about. And finally a Joe lesson with Lottie who was mildly put out to be ridden twice in a day, but she gave me some amazing work. She is such a fab horse. Love her.

Well deserved rest day tomorrow than SJ lesson on Saturday and probably another ride out on Sunday.

What are you all up to?

 

[Britestar]

Nothing this weekend.
Working Saturday.

Next weekend running RC Area comp over 2 days, plus an evening dressage on Tuesday night.

No doubt this weekend will be spent organising for next.

Well squeeze in a hack and a schooling session.

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Well, having not apparently acted like a beginner last weekend I've been invited back to ride out with lovely friend I met through the RC, to ride one of hers again, this time I think she is boxing up to ride elsewhere. Hope my rusty skills are up to it!

AE, sounds a fab ride this morning

 

[SEL]

Nothing like horses for bringing you back to earth. After an incredible day last Sunday with the microcob today Babycob decided to "improvise" during evening dressage.

He's been regularly getting scores in the high 60s for Intro tests with e-riders and I was hoping we'd done enough clinics this year to be over the away from home anxiety.

I was wrong! Intro A started with a leap before we'd even got into the arena, I couldn't get him forward and instead had the hot, spooky, tense version. I was hopeful he'd settle for Intro B but nope, he was worse. The judge was treated to me giving him a boot and telling him to pack it in and get on. I'd given up on scores by then! We didn't even manage to stand for the flipping salute.

Just to round off my night they had a photographer. Apparently I need to smile more (cheers mate) but not to worry because he got at least one of the leaps on film. Excellent. Love the outtakes.......

 

[Ample Prosecco]

Oh dear but your description did make me smile

 

[shortstuff99]

I'm taking the Beans to the Lusitano Breed show on sat to do the PRE showing. Her first big show, so hopefully wont die. I also got back from Greece at 4am on weds so Bean is now fat. But hey showing people like that right

I'm then official stewarding the area riding club horse trials from 8am to 7pm in a place that's over an hour from me . Harder work than my job .

Not to worry as on weds I'm going to Portugal for the Ponte De Lima horse fair (promise, not promise to buy more horses ).

 

[Curly_Feather]

Nothing like horses for bringing you back to earth. After an incredible day last Sunday with the microcob today Babycob decided to "improvise" during evening dressage.

He's been regularly getting scores in the high 60s for Intro tests with e-riders and I was hoping we'd done enough clinics this year to be over the away from home anxiety.

I was wrong! Intro A started with a leap before we'd even got into the arena, I couldn't get him forward and instead had the hot, spooky, tense version. I was hopeful he'd settle for Intro B but nope, he was worse. The judge was treated to me giving him a boot and telling him to pack it in and get on. I'd given up on scores by then! We didn't even manage to stand for the flipping salute.

Just to round off my night they had a photographer. Apparently I need to smile more (cheers mate) but not to worry because he got at least one of the leaps on film. Excellent. Love the outtakes.......

If you focus on shows only as a way to get either interesting (in your case) or pretty pictures, I promise the whole experience is a lot less stressful

 

[Titchy Reindeer]

I got back on board last night after two weeks off due to taking a nose dive with Enormosaurus out on a hack (resulted in my first horse-related trip to A&E but no broken bones so all good). I borrowed a chubby riding school pony for my first ride as I didn't fancy testing out my no-longer entirely dodgy arm on Enormosaurus. All good for riding but hoof picking is not brilliant at the moment.
Tonight is final carousel practice on Little Yellow (Enormosaurus got banned for being too unpredictable for now and Mr Metronome got chucked out for pulling faces and scaring the other horses out of formation).
Tomorrow is the riding school's end of year "party", everyone brings their picnic for lunch then there's the carousel and some jumping courses. I'm hoping to get back on Enormosaurus at that point, but not sure if I'll attempt jumping or not. I think I'll just see how it goes and take it from there.

 

[Tiddlypom]

It's Thursday and I have been super busy.

Longish hack this morning with me on my YO's horse, and an HHOer on Lottie (who may choose to out herself but that is up to her). Fab ride to the 3 Shires Head (pictured in link).

3 shires head waterfall - Google Suche
Quite a few canters and the Full Lottie Experience (super enthusiastic and FAST!). Very rough, steep riding in parts, including a section our YO calls 'rock climbing on horse back', but Lottie is quite mountain goat like, so that was fine.

The a Joe Midgley lesson with the youngsters, which I will update the Joe thread about. And finally a Joe lesson with Lottie who was mildly put out to be ridden twice in a day, but she gave me some amazing work. She is such a fab horse. Love her.

I’m the lucky HHOer who was privileged to ride out on AE’s awesome Lottie on a fabulous hack in open country in the Peak District up to and around Three Shires Head yesterday.

This is coming up to Three Shires Head. There were plenty of rougher and more precipitous tracks too, for which I decided that I had better keep my phone in my pocket as we negotiated them , and Lottie is indeed mountain goat like.







She is uber enthusiastic and forward, but safe. The feeling of power that she gives is immense, she gives as good or better a feel to ride than any other horse that I’ve sat on, but without scaring this old age pensioner silly.

Then a fascinating afternoon spent spectating at Joe Midgley sessions. He’s good.

A grand day, many thanks, AE.

 

[Ample Prosecco]

It was a pleasure!! Always happy to share the amazing scenery round here. We are very lucky. Lottie has converted me to the joys of hacking, which was never really my thing before.

 

[Squeak]

I’m the lucky HHOer who was privileged to ride out on AE’s awesome Lottie on a fabulous hack in open country in the Peak District up to and around Three Shires Head yesterday.

This is coming up to Three Shires Head. There were plenty of rougher and more precipitous tracks too, for which I decided that I had better keep my phone in my pocket as we negotiated them , and Lottie is indeed mountain goat like.

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She is uber enthusiastic and forward, but safe. The feeling of power that she gives is immense, she gives as good or better a feel to ride than any other horse that I’ve sat on, but without scaring this old age pensioner silly.

Then a fascinating afternoon spent spectating at Joe Midgley sessions. He’s good.

A grand day, many thanks, AE.

Wow what incredible scenery. Is that straight from your yard AE or do you have to box somewhere to start?

 

[Ample Prosecco]

Yes straight from the yard with just 1 small country road to cross to get onto bridletracks going up to 3 shires.

 

[nagblagger]

Yes straight from the yard with just 1 small country road to cross to get onto bridletracks going up to 3 shires.

I AM NOT JEALOUS....

 

[Alibear]

It's a quiet weekend. I hope to hack out at some point, and then there will be a lesson on Monday to get us going again.
I'm jealous of @Ambers Echo's fantastic hacking; we have very nice hacking, but it's all flat-field headlands.
If everything goes well this week, I might venture to Thetford forest the following weekend. We need to practise for our upcoming New Forrest trip

 

[SEL]

If you focus on shows only as a way to get either interesting (in your case) or pretty pictures, I promise the whole experience is a lot less stressful

I'll add entertaining the audience to the list - we seem to have that nailed!!

 

[SEL]

Yes straight from the yard with just 1 small country road to cross to get onto bridletracks going up to 3 shires.

Wow - I remember you needing to move yards and you really struck lucky there. I am insanely jealous! After years of Cannock Chase it was a horrible shock moving back to the south east with the amount of traffic we now need to negotiate.

 

[Moodymare88]

After a disheartening 3 weeks of trying to event and do a hunter trial with my mare, i am having a break from eventing whilst i work on my mindset using NLP and hypnotherapy with this super sponsorship i have just been granted. Time to work on all the negativity, doubt and loss of confidence from my previous coach who was also a mindset coach (just not a good one but hindsight and all that).

This Sunday we are going to do some BD to hopefully rebuild my confidence. Unfortunately, my lovely pick-up truck is currently waiting to be picked up and repaired. I was driving back from the yard Monday morning and this idiot (who knew his brakes weren't working properly) came out of a side road and driven into the side of my truck. Luckily i have a like to like, so can still tow and as i entered before the accident, we are going to go and do something i know we aren't too bad at!

I am hoping my heart may get back into eventing again, but i am just enjoying my horse for now and trying to get my lovely truck back.

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

After a disheartening 3 weeks of trying to event and do a hunter trial with my mare, i am having a break from eventing whilst i work on my mindset using NLP and hypnotherapy with this super sponsorship i have just been granted. Time to work on all the negativity, doubt and loss of confidence from my previous coach who was also a mindset coach (just not a good one but hindsight and all that).

This Sunday we are going to do some BD to hopefully rebuild my confidence. Unfortunately, my lovely pick-up truck is currently waiting to be picked up and repaired. I was driving back from the yard Monday morning and this idiot (who knew his brakes weren't working properly) came out of a side road and driven into the side of my truck. Luckily i have a like to like, so can still tow and as i entered before the accident, we are going to go and do something i know we aren't too bad at!

I am hoping my heart may get back into eventing again, but i am just enjoying my horse for now and trying to get my lovely truck back.

Sorry to hear about your truck but glad to hear you can still get out to some BD. Also sorry that someone set up as a mindset coach seems to have set you back with your confidence rather than helped.

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I am also in awe of @Ambers Echo hacking!

I went for a hack on Wednesday so no plans this weekend. I hit one of my 2024 goals to ride on the Ridgeway (albeit a very tiny section of it!) and have a wonderful picture of me on horse with glorious sunshine, blue sky and looking out over the wheat field. It would be nice to share the pic but not my horse, so take my word for it and visualise a horse that looks a bit like Red-1's Rigsby

Today I'm plotting my July horsey plans: I want to get some dressage writing in (at Barbury CC, Dauntsey BE and/or Oxstalls Unaff.), get my e-riders entry in, and definitely go on another hack. It's my birthday month so I'm using it as an excuse to book more horse-stuff and I have asked exclusively for horse-stuff or funds for horse stuff

 

[Jinx94]

I'll be getting back on Tris for the first time in ages. Got plenty of gentle fitness work to do and hopefully we'll comfortably be able to do a Cotswold Farm Park fun ride at the end of September.

Right now the plan is to get back into hacking and just be able to enjoy ourselves ❤

 

[j1ffy]

Sorry to hear about your truck but glad to hear you can still get out to some BD. Also sorry that someone set up as a mindset coach seems to have set you back with your confidence rather than helped.

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I am also in awe of @Ambers Echo hacking!

I went for a hack on Wednesday so no plans this weekend. I hit one of my 2024 goals to ride on the Ridgeway (albeit a very tiny section of it!) and have a wonderful picture of me on horse with glorious sunshine, blue sky and looking out over the wheat field. It would be nice to share the pic but not my horse, so take my word for it and visualise a horse that looks a bit like Red-1's Rigsby

Today I'm plotting my July horsey plans: I want to get some dressage writing in (at Barbury CC, Dauntsey BE and/or Oxstalls Unaff.), get my e-riders entry in, and definitely go on another hack. It's my birthday month so I'm using it as an excuse to book more horse-stuff and I have asked exclusively for horse-stuff or funds for horse stuff

Which bit of the Ridgeway were you on SPD? I'm lucky enough to be able to hack up onto it, though my previous yard was better as now I have to negotiate a busy National Trust area with annoying gates, children, sheep, dogs, kites.... I rode the full bridleway length of it in 2017 with some fellow Rockley Rehabs, which was a childhood dream come true!

I'm off to my trainer's for lessons today and tomorrow, then leaving Chilli there for a bootcamp for two weeks. It will be odd not having him around and also odd having someone else regularly ride him as I've done it all since he was backed and ridden away!

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

Which bit of the Ridgeway were you on SPD? I'm lucky enough to be able to hack up onto it, though my previous yard was better as now I have to negotiate a busy National Trust area with annoying gates, children, sheep, dogs, kites.... I rode the full bridleway length of it in 2017 with some fellow Rockley Rehabs, which was a childhood dream come true!

I'm off to my trainer's for lessons today and tomorrow, then leaving Chilli there for a bootcamp for two weeks. It will be odd not having him around and also odd having someone else regularly ride him as I've done it all since he was backed and ridden away!

Near-ish Barbury I think I was only actually on the Ridgeway for a few minutes, I'm still counting it but obviously would like to do more. To do the full thing sounds amazing!

 

[daydreamer]

Saturday morning I’ve got my first ‘show’ with my (very green) 6 year old. A local riding club is running it at the yard where we are so it would have been rude not to! We’re just doing intro B. I’ve borrowed a white numnah and a set of bridle numbers, bought a new shirt and I’m hoping my jacket still fits. The RC kindly put me first as on my entry I wrote that I wanted to go as early as possible. We’ve had one practice as the dressage boards are out in a field I don’t normally ride in, planning another practice later with my car in place and a friend to toot the horn! It has reminded me why I don’t really like competing - far too many variables to worry about!

 

[Red-1]

My horse life is a little complicated at the moment. After Mr Red died, I spent the winter sorting the house out. This spring/early summer I've set my attention to the outside.

For a few weeks both horses went to my friend while I had a holiday, but then both stayed away as the fields were being majorly dug up and re-fenced. They now have drainage etc but only one small paddock is useable, so Rigs came home.

BH is still with my friend, who is a pro. He isn't having massive training, but is being ridden 3-4 times a week, with the occasional jump to keep his hand in and have some progression. It is giving me time and head space to sort out everything else. I thoroughly trust my friend and have kind of ticked him off the list for now. I suspect he'll be back in August.

Last Wednesday, he went on the box to a show, just for the ride and ride round the woods while they were there. He was super-cool...



and they have decided to try him in a British Novice this Saturday. I will go to watch. It is about a year since he went to a show, as it is nearly a year since David died. Up until then, he was out training and competing every week, often 2 lessons and a show in a week. He has not done affiliated though and it will be a BIG step up as I was just cantering round 60cm clear rounds, which didn't have fillers. The rider is FAB though and I have been training him all winter, with a jump clinic every 2 weeks.

Sorry to hear about your truck but glad to hear you can still get out to some BD. Also sorry that someone set up as a mindset coach seems to have set you back with your confidence rather than helped.

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I am also in awe of @Ambers Echo hacking!

I It would be nice to share the pic but not my horse, so take my word for it and visualise a horse that looks a bit like Red-1's Rigsby

Well it must be a stunning photo then Talking of the handsome man Rigsby, I'm about to to take him out hacking with a friend. We are generally out an hour and a half, but some of that is at the pub While BH is away, Rigs has done a little more work. He seems to enjoy it, TBH.

 

[Cloball]

No plans having a bit of a wobble again. D is being very spooky by herself and I'm uber stressed at work as I've stepped up a responsibility, wedding planning, nursing a sick cat, not sleeping and my back is sore ,, don't really feel in the right mind frame for riding but also feel guilty about not riding.

Need to pull my socks up and do some ground work and book some lessons I'm thinking about a sharer to take the pressure off a bit but not sure who would be interested in a dinky fell with the mind of a tb.

 

[Wishfilly]

Jump lesson today, jumped both sets of planks (albeit tiny), but still felt like an achievement! Taking it all slow with very baby steps (for my sake, not the pony's!), but it's starting to feel like some goals I'd written off forever might be achievable after all!

 

[SEL]

Decided after Babycob's antics at dressage I'd take him to another local show tomorrow so it all becomes a bit more routine. I can only do first thing in the morning due to OH having a golf event I promised to go to, so we're jumping 40cm with the lead rein kids

I may pop a green ribbon in his tail just to justify being in the class and to tell the lead rein mum's I don't want their kiddies rosettes!!

 

[Red-1]

BH was fab at the show, his first affilliated. NP (New Partner) also had his first show. He walked the horse round, trimmed his feet and loaded up for the first time. NP is something of a natural.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7385924065602637088

Having a pro ride your horse is ace!!!

 

[SEL]

BH was fab at the show, his first affilliated. NP (New Partner) also had his first show. He walked the horse round, trimmed his feet and loaded up for the first time. NP is something of a natural.

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https://www.tiktok.com/video/7385924065602637088

Having a pro ride your horse is ace!!!

BH looks amazing!

And I think NP will need his own horse soon.

 

[Red-1]

BH looks amazing!

And I think NP will need his own horse soon.

He says he'd like to beach ride...

TBH, BH is a super horse to learn on. NP has only sat on a horse 5 times, but the 5th time was to the pub on BH. BH likes a ride to the pub and will stand there all day

 

[daydreamer]

Saturday morning I’ve got my first ‘show’ with my (very green) 6 year old. A local riding club is running it at the yard where we are so it would have been rude not to! We’re just doing intro B. I’ve borrowed a white numnah and a set of bridle numbers, bought a new shirt and I’m hoping my jacket still fits. The RC kindly put me first as on my entry I wrote that I wanted to go as early as possible. We’ve had one practice as the dressage boards are out in a field I don’t normally ride in, planning another practice later with my car in place and a friend to toot the horn! It has reminded me why I don’t really like competing - far too many variables to worry about!

It went well!!

I got on down at the yard and was obviously tense because even walking around the school Duncan was wiggly and tense. I sorted myself out and we managed some nice relaxed trot work in the arena. A friend kindly walked with me up to the field and dressage arena. There was quite a bit of gawping at all the cars and strange horses that had appeared overnight. Luckily the horseboxes were all in the next door field the other side of the hedge and no-one had started jumping yet (phew!). I managed some relaxed walk around the outside of the arena but our first trot was very tense and rushed. We sorted that and managed to enter at A with some degree of rhythm.

The test went well, he was not very relaxed (me neither though I tried my best) and was inattentive at times but he did stay with me. We had one illegal canter when he just got very tight and tense but he came back to me quickly and we sorted ourselves out. We ended on a good note, an 8 for our halt and managed to walk out the arena in a relaxed way on a loose rein.

I'm very proud of him for how well he handled it. I need to work on being calmer but I doubt I have done a dressage test in at least 7 years and that was probably Dressage Online!
We scored 64.7% and came 5th out of 8

Him looking pretty at our full on dress rehearsal the day before (does this make me weird?)


Phew! We've finished and can relax on the way out!!