avthechav
Well-Known Member
So in reponse to the comments about people not posting I thought I would do one!
Last year Gingie was diagnosed with inflammation of the navicular bone with a good prognosis. However I wanted something to play with whilst Ginge was given time to sort his feet out and so I bought a lovely but scruffy looking weedy ISH x KWPN called Oliver,
I got him home and he soon settled in.
He was easy to get on and i started riding him in the spring, unfortunately I took advantage of his good nature, (stupidly forgot I was on a baby for a few mins and ended up with a broken collar bone- whoops!
Anyhow in April he did his first CR jumping and I just could not imagine how he could be able to jump the massive, wide, huge fences, (all of 75cms but I seemed to have turned into a big wimp over the winter!). We went for two days training at Nick Gauntlett who was fab. He took my martingale off, and Oliver came into his own.
So eventually I summoned up the courage to take him out eventing. I dont have a school at home and so the poor boy was a little under prepared in the dressage but I was thrilled as he held his own in the class. We had a cheeky stop in the SJ and it took until fence 4 on the XC for him to realise that this was the fun bit and then we were away!
Then he went to ALW and did the 80 there as well. This time with a better dressage, a clear SJ and a coupld of understandable baby moments xc. Then I put on my brave pants and we started doing 90s. He completed Ascott Under Wychwood, Broadway and Chepstow. None of which were perfect but all showed improvement and more than anything was just lots and lots of fun!
(looking a little portly on the summer grass at Chepstow!). Chepstow gave us our first clear xc and he really flew round a hilly track on holding ground.
Our eventing season finished with Swalcliffe at the end of September and finally we got our double clear and a decent dressage to boot. We picked up a fair few XC TF but he felt so super confident XC that I am sure that the timing will come as we both get fitter for next season!
I decided to end our eventing on a fab note and since then we have been doing some BS. My fab pony won the British Novice at Hartpury last weekend and I am hoping to complete a couple of Discoverys and do some more flat work before he goes on his winter holiday with his shoes off. However he is going through a bit of a cocky teenage stage where he knows best and just wants to get on with it, I really need to get him off my leg a lot more as we are finding turning left an issue at the moment. (I am pretty sure I just need to straighten him up on the flat but any ideas/ exercises gratefully recieved). I have thoroughly enjoyed my lovely super pony, and really enjoyed watching him develop this summer and look forward to more next year...
And here is a picture of Gingie from the summer so that he doesnt feel left out
Apologies for this long and rambling post and thansk for reading if you managed to get to the end.
Last year Gingie was diagnosed with inflammation of the navicular bone with a good prognosis. However I wanted something to play with whilst Ginge was given time to sort his feet out and so I bought a lovely but scruffy looking weedy ISH x KWPN called Oliver,
I got him home and he soon settled in.
He was easy to get on and i started riding him in the spring, unfortunately I took advantage of his good nature, (stupidly forgot I was on a baby for a few mins and ended up with a broken collar bone- whoops!
Anyhow in April he did his first CR jumping and I just could not imagine how he could be able to jump the massive, wide, huge fences, (all of 75cms but I seemed to have turned into a big wimp over the winter!). We went for two days training at Nick Gauntlett who was fab. He took my martingale off, and Oliver came into his own.
So eventually I summoned up the courage to take him out eventing. I dont have a school at home and so the poor boy was a little under prepared in the dressage but I was thrilled as he held his own in the class. We had a cheeky stop in the SJ and it took until fence 4 on the XC for him to realise that this was the fun bit and then we were away!
Then he went to ALW and did the 80 there as well. This time with a better dressage, a clear SJ and a coupld of understandable baby moments xc. Then I put on my brave pants and we started doing 90s. He completed Ascott Under Wychwood, Broadway and Chepstow. None of which were perfect but all showed improvement and more than anything was just lots and lots of fun!
Our eventing season finished with Swalcliffe at the end of September and finally we got our double clear and a decent dressage to boot. We picked up a fair few XC TF but he felt so super confident XC that I am sure that the timing will come as we both get fitter for next season!
I decided to end our eventing on a fab note and since then we have been doing some BS. My fab pony won the British Novice at Hartpury last weekend and I am hoping to complete a couple of Discoverys and do some more flat work before he goes on his winter holiday with his shoes off. However he is going through a bit of a cocky teenage stage where he knows best and just wants to get on with it, I really need to get him off my leg a lot more as we are finding turning left an issue at the moment. (I am pretty sure I just need to straighten him up on the flat but any ideas/ exercises gratefully recieved). I have thoroughly enjoyed my lovely super pony, and really enjoyed watching him develop this summer and look forward to more next year...
And here is a picture of Gingie from the summer so that he doesnt feel left out
Apologies for this long and rambling post and thansk for reading if you managed to get to the end.
