MGG
Well-Known Member
No reason for this post, just wanted to say that my daughter's pony has been a real little angel this weekend. She has had him now for almost exactly a year. We went to a little showing show with him yesterday. He did all the classes he was in with no problems at all even with some funny little birds running about in one corner of the indoor school. He tucked his little head in and batted his eyelids at the judge and was just cute. He didn't win anything, he got some placings, had fun. We shared a packet of polos....
There were some fancy ponies in the show apparently practising for some qualifier or other and some most extraordinary adults with the kids. Amazing things some of them were saying to the kids...One of them said 'That's right x, a red rosette. We come first and that's where we stay!''
This wasn't the only comment like this - strange people...
There were some hysterical tiny kids too. One announced very loudly as she went in to a lead rein class 'I am not trotting Mummy! I just won't'. When it came to her turn to do her little show, the judge said to her 'I understand you aren't going to trot.' The little girl then said 'I might if you ask nicely!'
And today my two jumped the wall in the school and the plank. Notice - i said plank not planks! It was propped up on the ground all of 8 inches high and the 'wall' is wall shaped, but probably not much more than 12 inches high. But to her it was as big as the Puissance wall at Olympia and she looked almost as chuffed as William Whitaker once she'd jumped it.
He's so great. He isn't actually a special pony - just a normal one, but he is special to us. He has given her so much - not just in riding terms, but in self-confidence and we love him.
There were some fancy ponies in the show apparently practising for some qualifier or other and some most extraordinary adults with the kids. Amazing things some of them were saying to the kids...One of them said 'That's right x, a red rosette. We come first and that's where we stay!''
There were some hysterical tiny kids too. One announced very loudly as she went in to a lead rein class 'I am not trotting Mummy! I just won't'. When it came to her turn to do her little show, the judge said to her 'I understand you aren't going to trot.' The little girl then said 'I might if you ask nicely!'
And today my two jumped the wall in the school and the plank. Notice - i said plank not planks! It was propped up on the ground all of 8 inches high and the 'wall' is wall shaped, but probably not much more than 12 inches high. But to her it was as big as the Puissance wall at Olympia and she looked almost as chuffed as William Whitaker once she'd jumped it.
He's so great. He isn't actually a special pony - just a normal one, but he is special to us. He has given her so much - not just in riding terms, but in self-confidence and we love him.
