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We have an event this weekend! Seems like ages since we've had a run as Bricky was cancelled and Blenheim EC wasn't a 'proper' run - So we are at Bovington for our final BE run (penultimate run) this year, starting with a nice 2pm dressage <3

Other than that i have a second viewing on my other horse on Saturday and that's about it!

What about you?
 
Good luck at Bovington and the horse viewing!

Nothing for me, I have been boring for ages now :lol:, but I'm off on my holibobs so the horses are having a mini-break :).
 
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Busy! It's OH's birthday and we're going away for a couple of days. Had to squish all my horsey commitments into 4 days instead of 7 :eek3: and sort the ponies out so someone else can look after them.

Consequently.... no horse related plans! Lie ins, cocktails, general pottering about. Have fun everyone who is out and about :D
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Saturday I am either collecting newly broken pony for friend, taking Bailey jumping or just taking Bailey for a good old leg stretch over the fields. Sunday will be usual hack out with DP who has been a star since we moved yards.
 
Haha wondered what had happened to this thread!
Quiet one for me - beach ride on Saturday and lesson on Sunday.
Good luck to those out and about.
 
Out for lunch Saturday with some uni friends who went and got real jobs after graduation and then clipping Mol and her hacking mate in the afternoon.
Hacking Sunday, exact route will depend on her behaviour! Might go and have a lie across Mads to see how she reacts after being off since end of Jan.
 
Dressage comp on Saturday for us. Having had a break from competing over the summer (competition gear in hot weather is my idea of hell) it's time for us to get back out there and get our dancing shoes on! Sunday will just be a short plod around the roads.
 
Quiet for us after a manic weekend last week (Arab BD champs Sat in Solihull, and MyQuest finals at Welly on Sunday). Arena stewarding at local BD competition for much of Saturday and teaching my pony's sharer how to clip Sunday. Will probably squeeze in a ST session and a ride at some point, but aiming to keep things a bit low key for the next couple of weeks. Good luck to all those out and about. xx
 
Busy weekend for us. Taking my coloured mare to a showing show tomorrow, inhand coloured in the morning then riding horse in the afternoon.

Sunday I am taking my palomino on a 17km competitive trail ride which he always enjoys.
 
Good luck LP - for event and viewing.
Hope the dancing shoes are sparkling after some downtime micro
Busy busy silv, sounds like a good weekend though :D

As others, I've not got much going on, next week is fairly horse-centric though with vaccinations and hopefully starting to get Arty's hernia sorted out (which puts backing her on the near horizon at last) on Monday, and then a saddler visit on Thursday to hopefully find a new dressage saddle (hopefully get something to suit me as well as the horse this time :p)

Have a lovely weekend all who are having a relaxing one :)
 
Not much for me - gonna start bringing in at night soon so stables and yard will get a tidy up and beds put down, need to get my winter haylage ordered and part delivered but not much else :)

Good luck to anyone competing or training
 
Holidays & mini breaks sound very nice indeed... even though I got back from holiday a couple of weeks ago, it already feels like it didn't actually happen! I'd love to go away again, I'm exhausted :D

Had a great week so far (in horsey terms). Had a jump lesson on Tuesday which saw up popping 90cm! Which for me is positively ginormous! I should probably mention that it was at the end of a grid, so I know it doesn't really count... but I'm still really chuffed :)

Usual dressage lesson on Wednesday which was hard work. Last week we were doing baby half-pass and it felt easy, this week just trying to canter properly :D funny how different they can be day to day! Followed by long-reining around the yard yesterday, kept it nice and loose with no pressure, just practising stop-and-go with me behind to try and get him a bit braver. He will be off for his usual Friday hack today.

The rest of the weekend is being dedicated to clipping! He's so grubby and will need a bath first so I will be back and forth to the yard making sure he's clean and dry before I can start.

Might be going XC schooling Sunday, not sure yet.

Best of luck to all competing and hope everyone else has loads of fun, too! Those on holiday, enjoy yourselves, I'm not jealous at all :D
 
No major plans aside from clipping the Diva, who now resembles a yak. She's still removing her muzzle daily, despite some clever modifications. I'm honestly at a loss.

The Prima Donna is going through a ridiculous phase about hacking alone at the moment, so it means I have to set aside a good hour for a route that should take us 15 mins in walk (off road, on our land). Apparently stubble fields were great fun, but now she is confined to the paths again, she's decided to take exception to the whole experience. Daft bat. So I will be mostly reversing, bucking and napping this weekend. She always completes her route, even if we both return looking a bit frazzled!
 
I actually had a dressage lesson this morning. First one in 2 years. Will probably spend the weekend recovering and trying to locate my core muscles which appear to have been mislaid :D
 
Just a couple of nice hacks this weekend if I have time to squeeze them in. Weather in our parts set to reach highs of 25C.Turning horse around this weekend so no early morning riding at the weekends until she's in a regular pattern.
 
I haven't been out for ages and have spent the last year battling confidence and leg problems (me). Sunday we are off to UA SJ which is a bit scary. Just going to pop the 70-80 and 80-90 and the aim is calm and sensible. She shouldn't really have any down at that height, but I will be sloooowwww so doubt we will get any frillies.
Also have our second quadrille practice tonight. Someone on our yard came up with this crazy idea and the first go went pretty well, though 6 horses in a 20x40 seems like a squeeze.
 
I had a great RC flatwork lesson on Tuesday with a new (to me) trainer who spotted lots of faults (me rather than horse :) )

Tomorrow we are either going to a low key WH show or riding with friends, and hacking on Sunday.

I need to clip too :) Ponies are growing out their bib clips to need to take more off.....

Fiona
 
My daughter is entered into a team ODE on Sunday so she had a jumping lesson tonight and her pony can have a rest day tomorrow.

I'm hacking my horse out tomorrow. Our first time on roads but I think she will be ok. I'm going with rock solid baby sitters and she's pretty sensible anyway. But I'm still a bit nervous....
 
Well we managed a respectable 66% in our little prelim test, in spite of going the wrong way at one point! Not amazing by most people's standards I know, but neither of us have done much competing so there is a slight tendency for my riding to go to pot, so I am very pleased with our morning's work. That's one of our Area Festival qualifying scores in the bag, so onwards and upwards!

How is everyone else's weekend going?
 
I took my mare to a pole work clinic. Might not sound like much but it was her first trip away from home and I was very worried about how she'd be with strange horses. Eyes on stalks to start with, but behaved like an angel

It did prove that neither of us are very fit though! Pony has an excuse as she's spent most of this year off games, but I was red in the face and can feel my leg muscles this morning. One of us needs to do more trotting and I don't think it's the one with 4 legs!!
 
SEL said:
I took my mare to a pole work clinic. Might not sound like much but it was her first trip away from home and I was very worried about how she'd be with strange horses. Eyes on stalks to start with, but behaved like an angel

It did prove that neither of us are very fit though! Pony has an excuse as she's spent most of this year off games, but I was red in the face and can feel my leg muscles this morning. One of us needs to do more trotting and I don't think it's the one with 4 legs!!
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Ooh that sounds like a success! My perfectly behaved gentleman did a passable impersonation of an idiot when I took him out to a pole clinic - not dangerous, just overexcited and embarrassing! You're right to be proud of her behaviour. You're not a million miles from me, do you mind me asking where you went and whether you'd recommend?
 
Clipped Mols hacking buddy without issue (if a bit stripy due to my dodgy clipping skills!) and then tried to do her. She was fine with the clippers apart from up round her ears or on the underside or bottom half of her face - as a result she looks like she's wearing a very furry hat and a beard! Going to try round 2 with OHs human hair clippers later in the week :p.

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Amazing first trip back into the ring Micro - I would be very chuffed with that score if I were you.

Great news on getting her out SEL :D sounds very successful, even if you're now banished to trot boot camp for a bit
 
Micropony said:
Ooh that sounds like a success! My perfectly behaved gentleman did a passable impersonation of an idiot when I took him out to a pole clinic - not dangerous, just overexcited and embarrassing! You're right to be proud of her behaviour. You're not a million miles from me, do you mind me asking where you went and whether you'd recommend?
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http://www.susiepilbeam.com/

We did one of Susie's clinics (linky above). She was very understanding of my horse's general greenness plus the fact that she has PSSM and has been off work for most of this year. She was less understanding of the completely knackered rider who was puffing like a steam engine and couldn't steer straight!! She does quite a few clinics around the area, but I haven't got my own transport so i'm a bit limited as to where and when. I'm definitely signing up for another one because I think now she's seen us in action she'll know what she's working with at our next outing.

Despite the fact my mare was exhausted afterwards she was absolutely full of herself the following morning. The PSSM means she has to be worked daily so I was planning just a quiet ride and instead I got a pony who was happily showing me how she could bounce off into canter and boing over trotting poles. I think the change of scenery was needed and the arena at Attington is lovely and big.

Where did you go for yours?
 
Ah thanks for the info SEL. Some of that is about an hour from me so could be do-able. We did our pole clinic at Priory Farm which is Langley/Slough way. It was great fun and good experience for him, but it was a bit 'go here, go there' rather than much focus on the quality of work or my riding, so not sure I will be rushing back. We also ran out of energy a bit, which was a bit embarrassing in a group lesson when I thought we were moderately fit! My excuse is he made a big investment in silliness early on, so ran out of steam earlier than he would have done normally. And it was a scorching hot day. Excuses, excuses!

Sounds like your girl really benefited from your outing!

And thank you DabDab, that's really kind!
 
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I don't want to jinx it... :eek3:
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Hey you can't be that cryptic and then not follow it up!!
We went and did an arena hire yesterday, and madam stayed level, no leaping about, no bogging off through the shoulder and popped round a 1m - 1.10m track like it wasn't there :D still things to work on - she tends to lock on to whatever is in front of her as she comes round the corner which resulted in us giving my dad a near death experience when she locked on to the fence that he was adjusting and wanted to jump it backwards rather than continuing round the turn to the fence we were supposed to be going too :eek: but compared to what she's been like in the past it was a massive improvement :D :D
 
Our team ODE was great fun! Daughter did a 36 dressage, clear SJ and 1 stop XC on the balck flagged fence. She could feel him backing off it - it was quite a spooky corner. But he umped it once he had had a look at it.

Other daughter also took her brand new/green as grass/just off a boat from Ireland 5 yo pony along for some exposure/experience. We had no expectations of her at all - I was expecting just to tie her up outside the box with a haynet all day and let her see and hear everything. But she seemed very chilled so we tacked up. Still chilled so we went to dressage warm up area. Still chilled..... So we did the test and scored a respectable 39. Still chilled so we did the SJ phase for 4 faults. What an angel. We left it at that. She had done more than enough. We have only had her 2 weeks!

Hope pic link works.

https://www.facebook.com/ElandLodge...36174095316/10159336161490316/?type=3&theater
 
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