So this is Sadie

I am SORE this morning! I have a bit of skin missing where her foot got me and with the uh, unfortunate placement, my underwear keeps sticking to it, its very gross ?

My partner found the perfect place for her frilly tho and that is helping
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smolmaus said:
I am SORE this morning! I have a bit of skin missing where her foot got me and with the uh, unfortunate placement, my underwear keeps sticking to it, its very gross ?

My partner found the perfect place for her frilly tho and that is helping
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Well done! It's weird feeling isn't it, when you fell off and you're a bit sore (see my most recent post) but at the same time bursting with pride and happiness!
 
Annagain said:
Well done! It's weird feeling isn't it, when you fell off and you're a bit sore (see my most recent post) but at the same time bursting with pride and happiness!
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Oh I'm glad I didn't miss that post ?

And yes thats it exactly, the pride is for how she handled herself and even after that little blip she still trusted me that she was going to be okay, the frilly is just a nice extra.
 
smolmaus said:
Oh I'm glad I didn't miss that post ?

And yes thats it exactly, the pride is for how she handled herself and even after that little blip she still trusted me that she was going to be okay, the frilly is just a nice extra.
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She's adorable and you obviously have a lovely relationship.
 
Dressage again in the morning! Haven't had a nice ride all week so hopes aren't high for this one! ?

She has just been spooky and rushing everything because its been so dark and windy every evening and we have both struggled to find a nice rhythm so I am just focusing on RELAXATION all day and the test doesn't matter one bit.
 
No frilly this week but a calmer pony and a better score for it (67.3%). I didn't ride my best and lost marks for accuracy which is PHYSICALLY PAINFUL but at least that is easy fixed.

Not going next week as friend's mare will have new shoes on and gets a few days off but will go back for the final. In the meantime, will be working on stretching a bit more in the free walk and not using it as an opportunity to take in the scenery ?
 
Sadie got her first tiny baby bib clip this evening and was an absolute star about it. Fed her a couple of carrots while the clippers were on beside her, asked her to touch them with her nose (did it straight away without them even being held out to her, she knew they were the "scary" thing, I will never be so glad to have taught ANYTHING as "touch") and then stood like a rock while her Auntie J whipped off a quick strip.

So proud of her, I was beaming and feeling so smug then of course she dances a jig round me rather than pick her feet up and properly chomps my finger (by accident?) so hard I thought it was broken for a good 5 mins. Love to be so humbled so quickly.
 
smolmaus said:
Sadie got her first tiny baby bib clip this evening and was an absolute star about it. Fed her a couple of carrots while the clippers were on beside her, asked her to touch them with her nose (did it straight away without them even being held out to her, she knew they were the "scary" thing, I will never be so glad to have taught ANYTHING as "touch") and then stood like a rock while her Auntie J whipped off a quick strip.

So proud of her, I was beaming and feeling so smug then of course she dances a jig round me rather than pick her feet up and properly chomps my finger (by accident?) so hard I thought it was broken for a good 5 mins. Love to be so humbled so quickly.
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I love hearing your updates!!! You are both going from strength to strength! Fab score too! Hope your feeling physically better ?♥️
 
For the sake of an update:
Sadie went v briefly lame before the final of our dressage league in the last week of November, paddock politics was the prime culprit and she was sound a few days later but seemed a good time to give her a decent break. She has only really been riding since September. Come December and the big freeze here and was stood in for nearly a week, so this week;

Monday: lunged; terrible, confused, frustrated on both parts
Tuesday: lunged by More Experienced Friend; better, tanked off twice, learning experience for both of us. I am not firm enough, she finds it hard, once she relaxed we stopped.
Wednesday: long reined which she finds easier, tanked off again due to bird-in-hedge with the f-ing bit in her mouth but thankfully didn't catch herself on anything.
Thursday: long reined again, was absolutely foot perfect? Good?
Friday: sat on, again foot perfect. Like she never had a break.

Learning. She has much more draw than drive on the ground and we need to work on that. I have an R+ specialist I had a her-horses lesson with a while ago I want to get out to see how to get drive from the ground when she couldn't give a flying f about any kind of lunge whip or rope-swinf. Under saddle she is relaxed and stretching into the contact sometimes but not consistent. Still haven't been brave enough to push for canter in the on-site arena because I am scared.
 
We had our first little outing of the year to a local fun ride and Ms Sadie Moo was a superstar. Stayed calm when there was a loose horse, let her big 17.2h safety blanket Uncle C trot away from her to go have a canter (not risking that today ty) and even led her nervous friend back to the car park. The sun shines out of her. Even when it took 3 people to convince her to get back on the box to go home. The grass was very good there to be fair, she would have happily moved in.

First outing for the matchy LeMieux too. I never got to be a pony club kid so I'm just catching up now in my 30s 😊

I do have pictures but they won't flipping upload!!
 
Have a friend coming tomorrow to have a sit on Sadie, going to go for a hack down the scarier of our two current road routes with me on the ground and I am SO EXCITED. I tried to do the route by ourselves today in the rain, with very rude drivers and no head cam (forgot the waterproof case, didn't I) and it was a big "no ty this is scary" from both of us. I know she will be fine tootling along behind me and I can more easily give audi bad drivers the finger when I'm not holding reins.

I am so proud of her this week. We've started trot poles as part of our physio routine and she can do those at liberty too, when she isn't getting excited and tossing her head so much she loses her feet and trips on them. I'm also only allowed to go alongside the poles instead of over them with her so many times before she pulls me up on it and won't trot. She's very funny.
 
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