pics + a vid - CS working today:

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

well, firstly, yes im wearing a hat......he pushed his luck a bit yesterday and nearly dropped me out the side door, so today went out armed with a neck strap, stick, and hat.......i ditched the first two after warming up, but in the end could probably have done with keeping them, as you will see!

the trot and the canter have gone up another notch in terms of power/self carrige, and all the sideways stuff is comming much easier, there is just the occasional moment when he simply has to check im awake, and that i applied superglue.....and he wouldnt be him if we didnt have at least one episode of snake head and backwards bucking each week!

trot:

rein back:

shoulder in:

half pass:

collecting the trot back to half steps...needs to show more sit i know, the *sit* is better when producing the half steps from the walk, but being idle by nature, mixing it up with the trot work keeps him more forward thinking....

and going forward to ext trot.....have been working hard on keeping the suspension and cadence in the ext work, and he is really starting to show more push up off the floor and not just racing out the front door

we then had a minor disagreement about direction of travel:

but got on back on track with some walk to canter:

some canter half pass:

and some changes:

and just for good measure........check i wasnt getting complacent.......

many many swear words were, erm, shouted and he did eventually lower himself to cantering without trying to deer leap/bronc, me off!

theres a short vid here of 3 x 3's. i know he gets a bit stuck in the middle one, and im riding like a monkey up a tree, but i think they are quite passable for a 6yo, who is just playing with tempis

http://www.facebook.com/v/10150904453245257

 

[MillionDollar]

I absolutely LOVE the 4th, the half pass, pic, just gorgeous!!!

He looks fab. But naughty CS.

Great vid too, would love to see more

 

[dressagelove]

beautiful, very impressive wish i could get there already !

 

[nikkimariet]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Your face!! '**** where did my horse go?!'

You're right, wouldn't be him if he didn't like to check the limpet genetics every once in a while.

Getting more consistent all the time :wub:

 

[NinjaPony]

This is a genuine question so please don't get defensive, but it does suprise me when you know CS can be a naughty boy , that you don't wear a hat most of the time on him.
He looks to be working very well.

 

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

i guess you just have to acept that i know him inside out, most of the time its a half hearted try on,easily and quickly squashed.... yesterday he pushed his luck and although i worked though it,and didnt let him get away with it, today i wanted to do the proverbial *come down like a ton of bricks* and felt a hat might be prudent.......he tried it on, i flattened him, and now he'll back to his usual half hearted self for a good long while......and in reality the hat is more so i know his neck cant make contact with nose!!!i actually didnt feel in any danger of eating surface today, but its nice to know that whatever he does my nose is safe (my nose is only in danger when he needs *putting back in his box*).

shrugs.its fine to ask, but i dont want another hat debate please!

 

[rhino]

needs to show more sit i know

Looks like he's showing plenty 'sit' to me

Looking good

 

[Leg_end]

He's looking good but I have to say I'm so pleased you have a hat on

 

[Firewell]

He's gorgeous.

When he has those naughty moments how do you ride him through it? Do you tell him off?

.

 

[OneInAMillion]

He reminds me of D so much, butter wouldn't melt and then BAM!

 

[kirstyl]

i guess you just have to acept that i know him inside out, most of the time its a half hearted try on,easily and quickly squashed.... yesterday he pushed his luck and although i worked though it,and didnt let him get away with it, today i wanted to do the proverbial *come down like a ton of bricks* and felt a hat might be prudent.......he tried it on, i flattened him, and now he'll back to his usual half hearted self for a good long while......and in reality the hat is more so i know his neck cant make contact with nose!!!i actually didnt feel in any danger of eating surface today, but its nice to know that whatever he does my nose is safe (my nose is only in danger when he needs *putting back in his box*).

shrugs.its fine to ask, but i dont want another hat debate please!

Hi, I love seeing photos of you and your sister riding, particularly your horse as I too have an ex racehorse whom I'm re-schooling, it's great to have some inspiration from a partnership that is obviously going really well. But ... if you don't want a hat debate, don't post photos of yourselves riding without hats. My horse too is 99% of the time wonderful but you never know what is around the next corner and therefore I never ride without a hat.

 

[HappyHorses:)]

Is it me or can you see that he is wearing a 'I'm gonna be a monkey today' expression

When's the next outing?

 

[diggerbez]

i love him wouldn't ever want to have to try and sit on him...but love him nontheless i can't believe that he's only 6!

 

[Lolo]

Hi, I love seeing photos of you and your sister riding, particularly your horse as I too have an ex racehorse whom I'm re-schooling, it's great to have some inspiration from a partnership that is obviously going really well. But ... if you don't want a hat debate, don't post photos of yourselves riding without hats. My horse too is 99% of the time wonderful but you never know what is around the next corner and therefore I never ride without a hat.

Or people could just go "Oh, I wouldn't do that" in their heads and then type the rest out... I see a lot of things I'd like to comment on (on FB more than here!) and somehow I don't?!

He is a monkey, but a very talented and gorgeous one! Have you entered the RoR dressage series thingy?

 

[Booboos]

He is looking fantastic! Very muscular and well developed now, well done! As for the rest, well we all have to have some fun sometimes!!

 

[4faults]

Looking fantastic as always but what a cheeky boy haha. I would love to see some more vids of him

 

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

lolo-exactly,thanks. ................and yes, doing the ROR elem, am going to be very interested to see the other horses in it, as there are so many types of TB.

firewell-yes, definately he gets a rollocking! you can see in the first set of pics that he pulled his fave *trick* of bucking whilst jumping backwards and slightly to the left then droppign a shoulder and spinning 360 to the right......if you try and stop him mid spin he just goes higher so better to sit, let him stop moving and then kick him forward (and he gets sent forward really very firmly indeed if you catch my drift).
in the second set you can see iv managed to anchor the left side of him so he cant spin, hence the deer leap, but at least then i was able to kick forward straight away.
he tried it on once more but knowing id stopped the spin last time, he more or less gave up instantly, it was such a half hearted effort it was barely worth it!

 

[BuzzLightyear]

you must be sooooo excited about him,

I still cant believe he's only 6!

Well sat is all I can say for some of those photos

He looks great, a real credit to you

 

[siennamum]

He is looking amazing, especially for a 6 year old. Would love to see more vid of you both at some point.

 

[OneInAMillion]

Hi, I love seeing photos of you and your sister riding, particularly your horse as I too have an ex racehorse whom I'm re-schooling, it's great to have some inspiration from a partnership that is obviously going really well. But ... if you don't want a hat debate, don't post photos of yourselves riding without hats. My horse too is 99% of the time wonderful but you never know what is around the next corner and therefore I never ride without a hat.

If you dislike it that much don't look at the photos

 

[siennamum]

If you dislike it that much don't look at the photos

I agree, its very dull.

 

[Sneedy]

He's looking super! Is that his 'winter coat', if so you lucky bu**er!!!!!

Good luck next wkend

 

[Tr0uble]

Love the naughty pics, he really does have his naghty face on! I always love the good pics of him, but it gives hope to the rest of us to see a horse who can work so well also having his moments....just shows that things CAN be worked through!

Also, have to say I think I prefer him with the slightly shorter mane...unless it's my imagination that it's a bit shorter? Sets his neck off really nicely!

 

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

nope, you arent going mad, i hacked both the boys manes a bit last weekend, and when we saw these pics both NMT and I said we pref them shorter too, so no more hanson manes!!!

sneedy-caved and clipped him.he was just fuzzy round his jaw and armpits and fuzz drives me nuts, so have full clipped him.

on a mission to get more vid next weekend, of both the boys

thank you all, i know the tempi's are not nearly ready to take in a ring, but they are so easy i dont think it will be an issue to neaten them up, he's learning to count even when i forget lol!!!

 

[Tr0uble]

Always liked his long mane, but it def makes his neck look more impressive now it's shorter.

One question....how far do you travel to get paid to ride a horse who does acrobatics a bit like C's!? lol...rebacking Snip next year and not sure how up for it my poor broken knee will be!!!!!

 

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

lol!where are you based?

 

[imr]

Ha ha these really made me smile, looks all super dressage horsey and then morphs into little s..t mode! I know what you mean about head and neck in face - ive been walking about with a black eye the last 2 weeks thanks to baby mare turning herself inside out and neck making contact with my right cheekbone - I did have a hat on too!

I cant believe how advanced he is for a 6 yo. You must be so pleased with him. Youre clearly going to have zero trouble with turning single changes into tempis as he is rather getting the hang of them already, as you say he just needs to get more forward and expressive and to stop getting stuck. But then he is only 6 !

 

[Tr0uble]

Huntingdon in Cambs....I think you live Leics way? (near my parents) so I'm approx 1-1.25 hours drive stright down M1, A14.

 

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

ouch! i had a right shiner for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages when (another rather more deliberately vile creature) smaked my cheek/eye socket with the buckle of the cheekpiece..........how she managed to twist her head that far back and round!

i think changes will be one of his strong points, he does find them easy, and is naturally very straight, really its just me that needs to re-learn my counting, im just not quick enough some times!and if i could not wriggle so much, he would prob stay more forward?!

 

[Tr0uble]

I should add, Snip's aren't acrobatics to test you out, they're acrobatics because he has been tying up and has muscle damage...but will have had 2 years completely out of work by next spring....so will likely be a bit naffed in the head, but needs someone limpet like to sit it out until he realises it doesn't hurt any more!!! I would normally be happy to do it, but what with my knee problems this year....plus you'd be lighter than me (I'm not heavy, but def heavier than you!)

Would probably combine it with a lesson on the grey baby to make travel worthwhile, and there may be one other person up for a lesson whilse we're at it too!