Soggy weekend plans

Spreadsheets :D Show and clinic dates have been announced for next year and its looking like baby horse will be ready for some of them.
So figuring out which I want to do, combined which I can get to and which I can afford and which baby horse will likely enjoy.
Fingers crossed some of it pans out.
 
Boring weekend for us!

Schooling this weekend trying a new bit and working on our canter work which at the moment is more like just doing wall of death.
 
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Hunting all cancelled so last minute spot on a Caroline Moore camp in Gloucester. Poor bog has had a crap day, dentist this am. 2.5 hour drive in the eve. None of it ending with hounds...

I haven’t had a lesson since May and put myself in the lowest group assuming 70/80. Mistake.. starts at 90! I’m doomed!
 
Gorgeous Northern, pony and sunny vista. But I hope the fires don’t affect you.

Michen - from my limited experience, she’s good but pushes you, you’ll love it I’m sure. We asked for 70ish and she put them at 80+!
 
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Gorgeous Northern, pony and sunny vista. But I hope the fires don’t affect you.

Michen - from my limited experience, she’s good but pushes you, you’ll love it I’m sure. We asked for 70ish and she put them at 80+!
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Eeek! Paul gaff today who I found fab. I think Bog was quite shocked to be faced with an 8 fence grid and had to engage his brain, and me mine.. talk about jumping in at the deep end after most of the year off fences!

Great pony though. Course jumping this afternoon!

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Had a super day at dressage :) L was so good, didn't put a hoof out of line and was very brave and attentive, despite the appearance of some random cyclists (not her favourite thing in the world!). Happy with our scores, unfortunately I let us down by forgetting where to go, twice! :eek: In my defense, I haven't competed in ages o_O

So proud of the little munchkin. I've had her a year this week and she's come along so well, from the breaker I bought who had never been ridden out of an arena to a confident and relaxed first outing :cool:

Gratuitous dressage Haflinger picture :)

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Beautiful horse Northern 💖
AE I’d love some sun but 40 deg is a bit fierce 🌞
Haha hope prizegiving with stroppy child went ok Fiona!
Well done IHW you are obviously braver than me.
Well having had 3 weeks or so off work with a cough and only being able to ride at weekends now, took mr H for lesson yesterday and he was great. Doing pole work including half circles which is tricky not drifting out plus a couple of x poles. Trot and canter, me under strict instructions to not fiddle with his stride coming into the poles which goes against the grain.
Have booked a jumping lesson mid week.(just written a long winded summary of my previous mid week jumping lesson - same instructor - and bl88dy web page reloaded and lost it. Grrrr. 🤬)
Hope everyone is having a good weekend
 
well, first show is done and dusted. Very pleased overall. I was first to go so we had a nice quiet warm up arena, he did some proper work in a nice quiet rhythm and did a good job of keeping his brain on the job when it started to get busier. A bit nervous and gawpy in the test arena and spooked any time he could hear the judge and writer talking in their hut ;) but we achieved our aim of doing most things at the correct pace and correct direction :D One unplanned canter which was a shame but he came back to me nicely, and then did a cracking free walk. Pootled back to the warm up for a lap to just make sure that was still OK and then stood taking in the vibes in the lorry park.

We were HC so no frilly today but I think he won today anyway just for being a clever egg.

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Had a relatively dry weekend here...

Rooni had an arena hire yesterday (was calm and chilled) and Fig went for a good hack, which he loved!

Today Rooni went to his second ever show. And we ballsed up the first - disobedience (lol) EOC jog x 3 in walk and crap final halt. 56%. Good bits got 7-7.5’s. Bad bits got 1’s-4’s! Recovered nicely for the second test landing just shy of 69% with a big mistake and a few bobbles and a clear overall win. Very happy with him!

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Can’t wait to see what he can do on full power and with more experience. Judge was fab and very patient and absolutely spot on with her comments.
 
Well done everyone!

MP- absolutely made up for you getting the first show out of the way. He is super smart.
Not much going on here. Millie still on holiday, but she has now developed a cough and she’s not a cough type of Horse normally. Might get back on this week for some light hacking. Polly has another 7 days of inflacam, then we review and decide whether to scan her.
 
Lovely pictures and great reports from everyone! :D

M had an unplanned week off so we were going to go for a wander round the block today. She came in from the field fine but went hopping lame after about 100m - she'd got a stone wedged against her heel under the back of her shoe. A very slow walk back to the yard to try and remove it.
Sadly that didn't actually fix or reduce the lameness at all but there are no cuts, heat, or swelling on her leg or in the hoof so I'm keeping my fingers crossed it's just a bruise. We will see in the morning :(.
 
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Well done everyone!

MP- absolutely made up for you getting the first show out of the way. He is super smart.
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Thanks! Always a bit of an unknown when you go everywhere on your own, so it was nice to just have no drama and tick it off on the to-do list 😅

Hope all the poorly ponies are better soon.
 
Wow what an experience. So everything went a bit tits up after the gridwork in the morning. In the pm the course consisted of a 95cm meaty wide Oxer and a triple bar. That’s about my max height at the most I ever jump when at the best of my ability, so to be jumping that having been out of the swing of things for 6 months and a bag of nerves was a bad combo.


I chased Bog into the oxer instead of trusting the canter, forced him to take a flyer and nearly got jumped out of the saddle. The amount of daylight..

Sorted myself out after that and all was well.

Then Caroline Moore today.. nothing big but very technical and I had a proper melt down at a simple fence with a brush thing on a diagonal angle.. (there were actually tears). A silly crises. Caroline was epic, very firm but fair. I pulled my shit together and after that really enjoyed it. Simply amazing instruction- absolutely class. I think a series of events with broken ankle, a fall for Bog and I at calmsden, etc etc has really manifested itself and added to my already bad nerves.

Had I planned to go to camp I would have made sure I was confidently jumping again, so it was a bit of a throwing myself in at the deep end situation and whilst there were plenty of wobbles I’ve come away with the will to get out there again having really struggled to motivate myself to even ride for most of the summer and autumn.

I also have a massive appreciation for my horse. He is so completely consistent, there’s never a “side” to him when jumping, he’s always willing, honest, kind. So many horses would take advantage or offence but Boggle makes you feel like he’d try anything for you. I never have to worry about him having an upset, being silly etc etc. I think he knocked one pole out of about 100 jumps over the weekend.

Not really any videos as you have to zoom in on them so bit useless on YouTube, just a few random clips and photos.

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After Blue bucked me off last weekend, I've had the experts out to MOT this weekend. Saddle fitter passed everything as absolutely fine. Physio... Once the physio had massaged away all Blue's corrections, it became extremely obvious that she's back to being uneven behind. So it's back off to horsepital, and I'm back to worrying myself sick.
 
Michen what an awesome weekend you ended up having out of the blue!! Well done you must be absolutely buzzing.
MP well done on getting your first show out of the way.
Northern she looks gorgeous. Super shiny and super smart.

Sorry people are struggling with poorly ponies. Hope you all get good news this week.

Amber still has a fat leg but I think it's just an over-reaction to mud fever. She has the tiniest little scab on the affected leg. No lameness, no evidence of any other issue, so she's back in light work and leg is going down.

Dolly had an awesome time at Champs. She is such a superstar. So reliable and genuine. She warmed up over an 80cm scurry and was clear. Then did the 80 JwS and Eventers Challenge courses and the 90 JwS. A 4 and 2 8s but thrilled with her anyway. The courses were big and technical and she has only competed over 90 once before - when she qualified for Champs - so she acquitted herself very well. Only 2 teams finished on 3 clears in the 80 even with being allowed to drop a round. I'm not sure what happened in the 90 as we were first in and sadly our team was eliminated so we left.

Little clip of them coming through a brush combination - it's hard to tell but you had to jump both on an angle - it was impossible to line up for 2 - and so many horses had run outs to the left of number 2. But Dolly was fine.



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Ambers Echo said:
Michen what an awesome weekend you ended up having out of the blue!! Well done you must be absolutely buzzing.
MP well done on getting your first show out of the way.
Northern she looks gorgeous. Super shiny and super smart.

Sorry people are struggling with poorly ponies. Hope you all get good news this week.

Amber still has a fat leg but I think it's just an over-reaction to mud fever. She has the tiniest little scab on the affected leg. No lameness, no evidence of any other issue, so she's back in light work and leg is going down.

Dolly had an awesome time at Champs. She is such a superstar. So reliable and genuine. She warmed up over an 80cm scurry and was clear. Then did the 80 JwS and Eventers Challenge courses and the 90 JwS. A 4 and 2 8s but thrilled with her anyway. The courses were big and technical and she has only competed over 90 once before - when she qualified for Champs - so she acquitted herself very well. Only 2 teams finished on 3 clears in the 80 even with being allowed to drop a round. I'm not sure what happened in the 90 as we were first in and sadly our team was eliminated so we left.

Little clip of them coming through a brush combination - it's hard to tell but you had to jump both on an angle - it was impossible to line up for 2 - and so many horses had run outs to the left of number 2. But Dolly was fine.



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I just love how calm they both look through that brush combo. It looked effortless. Good job Katie and Dolly!
 
Well Hickstead was very exciting! There are just so many jumps, and it is absolutely massive. Poor paddy had his brain fried within about five minutes, so after that we didn’t do much technical stuff, just let him have fun jumping. The main problem is the warmup - they do have 80cm fences, but it isn’t a place I’d want to go if I was training at 80 or 90 even. The 80s were pretty much all skinny or spooky, paddy likes neither, so the warmup was tricky. Next time (we’ve got three more sessions) I think I’ll just start on the 90s, that’s where simpler questions start to come in.
We did really enjoy it, there’s a huge variety of jumps so a very good place to practice over winter. My aim is to jump all their 110s by our third session - we did a few but there’s two brush fences that look ridiculously huge, I’d be delighted if he jumps them eventually. Next session though will just be consolidation, getting him comfortable and focused in the arena so I know he’s happy with it.
Photos because he’s a pretty pony :)
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Really enjoyed reading this thread :) Looks like most of us did what we wanted/needed to do despite the weather!

I got Sky moved to join Maldwyn as he was super sad by himself at my old livery yard so now they're reunited and very happy <3 It's really weird being finished for early afternoon on a weekend (though I expect to spend full days there once I have my car fixed!) and this week will be my first not doing them morning and night. It's weird.

Though as you can imagine - I expect they don't give a monkey's about not seeing me!
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So we went off for our first longer ride away from either the woods or the gallops for the first time since April. Having Mindy back close to doing something like proper rides is pretty special, at 23 every ride is important with her and reminds me of how much I enjoy riding her and how completely irreplaceable she is.
We went off to the edge of Salisbury plains and had a lovely ride, swinging along fairly in control and doing just under 12k. She really enjoyed herself and had today off. Long may I keep her in one piece, which is partly due to my amazing farrier, as she is so much better now! Unfortunately she is incredibly accident prone and should really live in bubble wrap!
 
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