Well girls after last nights disscusion amigo the nf pony is going to stay forever, i think my mind was made up before then but now i am saying it out loud. Going to send him for breaking and schooling next year as a four year old as he is still very immature.
Am bouncing off the walls as just rode my friends mare who hasn't been ridden for a while etc and I think I've found a new horse to steal ...she was LOVELY
I have been saying to myself since he was 5 1/2 months old "i am only keeping him till he,s three so don,t get attatched" and i truly had not got attatched untill this summer then all of a sudden there we was cuddling each other. And i thought to myself why should i sell him i have been the one who tamed him when he came off the forest i,ve been the one who learnt him to trust people, why should i let someone else have him he,s mine mine mine .
I've got a yearling Snoopysue that I have said will be sold at 4/5, I have tried to stop myself getting attached to her but it is Sooooo hard, I will probably end up keeping her just like you are keeping your NF. Once they enter our lives it's so hard to let them go!
Lol he'd already been ridden and was out of the wind so I don't think he was too bothered
She's a 16hh irish x warmblood , 13 year old mare called Erin
She's been too hickstead etc but has spent the last 6 months or so just chilling out at this (new) home as her muscle was quite compact when she came. Anywho, YO asked if I wanted to ride her over this weekend to get her doing a bit more as she was starting to get bored and hoon around the field -resulting in the kick that someones (assuming Darcy
not that he kicks usually..) given her.
Anywho, took her for a hack and she was brilliant! Powered around the whole time in a really soft outline and was leg-yielding across the orchards etc like a pro! I wasnt even asking for the outline etc but I think as I had a bit more of a contact whereas her old owner likes to just buckle-ride (which is fine! I usually do but didn't know her etc etc) and she was fit and ready to go!
I'll have a top up slinks, my son has just pulled the puter from the sitting room into his bedroom, so I can escape, its rather loud here, forgotten what its like to be a teenager again............drunk
Ah-ha! Hadn't thought of this! She had been a bit sour in the school so didn't want to push it , plus she's not very fit but I can get her to supple in walk right??
Sounds like the BGL - if he is not in the mood it can take 30 - 40 mins to relax and work well - other days 10 mins!! Walk will be fine but keep doing different things - so circles 20m/10m, serpentines, figures of 8 etc etc. Keep her walking forwards so she is marching out and not just mincing around! I find with the BGL it is sometime better to rattle through a quick warm up in walk, trot and canter as it warms him up quicker and also loosens up his walk. That and he does like to have a good canter so then will concentrate in walk/trot as he is not trying to canter!!