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It's Thursday afternoon at last! Gawd this week is dragging.

What is everyone up to?

Kira has arena hire tomorrow to run through some tests, and then Area Festival semis at Pencoed on Monday. Will be a long day as first test is about 9am and 2nd is at half one, first to go in the AM.... urghhh. :rolleyes:

Have fun all :D
 
My 6yo has Pony Club Halloween Show on Saturday, so we will have SJ, WHP, dog show, fancy dress and pony games to contend with lol...

Then I have a group XC lesson booked for the Sunday with baby connie :)

Fiona
 
Going to try a new SJing trainer on Saturday (since my dressage saddles off for a complete reflock and I hate doing flat work without it!) so I am hoping she is good. Was happy to have a good convo about what I am looking to get out of it before I booked so fingers crossed.

Then hopefully my lovely saddle fitter will be out Sunday to do the final adjustments and might bring her horse so maybe a hack, or a play in the school.

My winter of dressage and Sjing commences in november!
 
I've got to try and MAKE myself hack on Saturday as it is the only day I have enough daylight - then a lesson on Sunday (yay!) and the physio on Monday morning. I am praying to every god that there is that she will let me start jumping again but I rather suspect it will be 'oh no he is really crooked you must concentrate on straightening him'.....aaaargh!!!!! :D :D
 
Thank god for Thursday! :D :D

Good luck MP!! Hope the dodgy times don't cause super Kira to go into hiding.
Have fun with lessons and fun classes everyone else.

Still nothing for me and the big man, boring between saddle type dilemma at the moment so all very dull :( Although, I am half contemplating getting on the micro mare this weekend :eek3: will see how we feel....
 
Nothing on tomorrow, is friday part of the weekend now? Working saturday, sunday i will go for a ride with a mate then meeting someone about feeding/checking their horses during the week, only a mile from my yard and on my way home so bit of extra money for literally throwing a scoop at them and making sure they are not dying? Yes please lol
 
Been very quiet for me lately. Lorry needed repairs. Then did my back in (putting his stud keepers in of all things ��) and it's taken 3 weeks to improve, so we missed out on a xc outing. Then work and travel, so not much riding for me. So frustrating. Have a sj lesson Saturday to hopefully get us back on track for that, hack on Sunday. I've entered a prelim next weekend as a relatively easy -hopefully- first outing for a while.
 
I’m essentially living the supercob dream - lesson tomorrow and Monday. Think we might go to a knock down XC on a track on Sun. She’s just the best thing that has ever happened to me.

As a reward (!) she’s coming into my winter surfaced turnout area tomorrow because of the EGS risk. I can’t imagine she’s going to be particularly pleased about this tbh but I can’t bear the thought of losing her so she’s going to have to suck it up!

Good luck all :)
 
FfionWinnie said:
As a reward (!) she’s coming into my winter surfaced turnout area tomorrow because of the EGS risk. I can’t imagine she’s going to be particularly pleased about this tbh but I can’t bear the thought of losing her so she’s going to have to suck it up!
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Must be so difficult with that at the back of your mind :( you've been through the mill with that :( but yay for supercob, she's really hit the ground running hasn't she? What a star.

Oooooh DabDab hope to hear good reports soon then... exciting!

Good luck everyone :)
 
milliepops said:
Must be so difficult with that at the back of your mind :( you've been through the mill with that :( but yay for supercob, she's really hit the ground running hasn't she? What a star.

Oooooh DabDab hope to hear good reports soon then... exciting!

Good luck everyone :)
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Thanks. Yes it is. I try not to think about it but the law of sod would dictate she would be number 3 wouldn’t it! Lost Hallie 3 years ago on 5th November. Introduced plenty of new horses since then who haven’t succumbed, but...
 
Nowt planned here, tho there are a few hallloween sj comps locally.
Have decided to have a quiet hacking weekend, but will pop along to support a good friend on Sunday who is going SJ.

That said, I went to a clinic on Weds & then yesterday whizzed round a farm ride popping a fair few xc fences, so we've been' out' already :D

Good luck to those out competing ! :)
 
I have a lesson on Sunday which I hope goes well, as the plan is to bring her home from the trainers the following weekend :)
Also hoping I can purchase the saddle that finally fits her this weekend too.
 
FW - love your new girl, but sad that you always have the EGS in the back of your mind, as if there wasn't already enough to worry about with horses.

Nothing much planned this weekend, other than finishing off prepping the stables for winter routine. After a full on few months, Cassie has had a couple of weeks off, but we need to get going again in the next day or so as we have lots of winter training to work on, as well as a few different activities booked in to try as well.

Good luck to all those out and about - have fun and keep safe. xx
 
Mavis007 said:
Am also competing at Pencoed Area Festival Final on Monday so might see you there Milliepops- good luck! ��
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Come & say hello if you spot us., I'm there on my own and will be bringing work to do between tests so will be glad of any distractions!
 
Good luck everyone competing / waiting on saddles and physios, and have fun hacking / fun showing! FW, love the sound of your supercob.

My weekend really did start on Friday, with an afternoon off to get fitted for a pair of Celeris boots! They’re my Christmas (x10!) present to myself, I can’t wait to get them in the New Year :D

Today I’m taking Indio to his second comp back in work. He’s been quite lively all week so let’s see what happens..! Then Sunday a friend and I are taking both my Spanish boys to a fun ride at Kingsclere, which should be fun :)
 
Off for an off the horse lesson on rider biomechanics today, although have to take my saddle so there must be a saddle horse to sit on at least :D

Then a steady in hand session for M after physio yesterday with polework tomorrow
 
Wheels said:
Off for an off the horse lesson on rider biomechanics today, although have to take my saddle so there must be a saddle horse to sit on at least :D

Then a steady in hand session for M after physio yesterday with polework tomorrow
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Ooh interesting, report back please!
 
Lévrier;13658430 said:
I've got to try and MAKE myself hack on Saturday as it is the only day I have enough daylight - then a lesson on Sunday (yay!) and the physio on Monday morning. I am praying to every god that there is that she will let me start jumping again but I rather suspect it will be 'oh no he is really crooked you must concentrate on straightening him'.....aaaargh!!!!! :D :D
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I feel your pain! I've not jumped in weeks - not since early September. A sore neck and back was just resolving when mud fever took hold, She's not lame but I don't want to risk sore legs hitting poles... Plus my RI says her canter is a bit rubbish and I really should be focusing on sorting that out before jumping.....
 
I clipped the hairy carriage ponies today :eek3:, I now have hairy eyes :(. Plus side Skylla is perfect whilst wearing earplugs :D, happy days!
 
Ambers Echo said:
I feel your pain! I've not jumped in weeks - not since early September. A sore neck and back was just resolving when mud fever took hold, She's not lame but I don't want to risk sore legs hitting poles... Plus my RI says her canter is a bit rubbish and I really should be focusing on sorting that out before jumping.....
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Ha ha yes we have canter problems too (caused by the crookedness) so lots of practising that :D

Despite my frustration at no jumping I’m having an awesome weekend so far - a brilliant schooling session last night where Jensen finally calmed down a bit and did some nice left canter, then a gorgeous hack in the sunshine this morning where we had a blast cantering along the bridle paths!

Really looking forward to my lesson tomorrow now :)
 
No comps for me this week..... Hacking tomorrow on the nutty TB who has now done enough rehabbing to start cantering. When I say cantering I mean bucking and fly bucking and squealing with excitement no doubt. Wish me luck and a sticky bum.
 
Cracking jump lesson today. Got myself into a bit of a tizz driving to the yard, but practised a bit of positive thinking and it really helped. Ins is fab and is really helping me feel more positive.

The thing that really cracked it today for me was looking right away from the fence on approach, which stops me from having a last minute freak out and allows Finnegan to get on with it. We both performed so much better with that tactic! Then had a lovely quiet hack out in the autumn sunshine. Fab day 😃
 
We had a jumping clinic at the yard today so I joined it, but said I only wanted to do the pole work. He put up some tiny (and I really do mean tiny) crosses, and on the 3rd or 4th time of going down them, N kicked one which then bounced back and hit him and he freaked a little bit, so I tested the surface out. Not hurt although a little sore; I got back on and went down the grid again before calling it a day.

Bernster your jump lesson sounds fab, you'll get your confidence back in no time xx
 
Hope everyones weekends are going ok, (and the unplanned dismount hasnt left you too sore JB!) but I had a lovely saturday!

Very pleased with the SJing lesson with a new person today. If I am feeling kind my horse is econmical and conservative, if I am not he is a lazy toad! She had some very good suggestions on how to get him more forward and set up some interesting grid work, which also involved jumping some of the grid as single fences on the angle. Horse loved having to think and the distances got so much easier to make as he got more forward. Defo going back. The right amount of confidence building and education and challenge with lots to take away.

A pic of the daft beast looking very neat, me not so much but rome wasnt built in a day! :)

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Bernster said:
Ooh interesting, report back please!
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It was very very interesting.

A group session with 8 of us - everyone brought along their own saddle and one by one we sat on the saddle horse in our own saddle and did a couple of exercises to find pelvic neutral, tilting pelvis forward and back, side to side and diagonally.

For me sitting still in pelvic neutral is good, I have done a lot of work on this because of an old back injury making me wonky, I have worked excessively with a physio and PT to straighten my pelvis and after a year that has definitely worked.

However, when I tried to move the left side of my pelvis up (shorten the waist on that side) it made me clamp with my right thigh. When I tried to move the left side of my pelvis diagonally forward (towards the horse opposite ear effectively) it wouldn't really budge very far. I also have wonky legs, my right leg turns out more at the thigh.

Once we had finished the on saddle assessment we got a gym ball to practise the same exercises and each person was to practice all the exercises but with emphasis on the ones they had issues with.

After that we did a few pilates type exercises, some stretches and some massage techniques using foam roller / spiky balls and given our homework. For me it is to work on the gym ball to release the muscles around my left hip and to use the massage ball to try and relieve my right piriformis which is pretty tight and probably the reason for my rotated right thigh.

Back in two weeks for re-assessment and more work on turning / lateral seat aids.
 
That sounds to be a really useful session Wheels!

I managed to totally flunk the lesson I’d been so looking forward to today by trying too hard - I wanted to show off how ace J has been, but we couldn’t even get our shoulder fore right in the warm up! Poor J must have wondered what on earth was going on!

We went on to do some really interesting pole work, but again I rode like a muppet which was frustrating. I don’t seem to be able to learn to control his neck in left canter, which combines with his being-worked-upon issues with left canter to result in not being able to turn left effectively. We didn’t quite crash into the fence but it was a near thing :D Lots of homework for me....
 
Congrats on the positive jumping lessons Bernster and THO :D hope you're not too sore after your unplanned dismount JB - still, seems like you had a nice positive end.

Sounds like a fab session Wheels, really interesting, thanks for the write up.

Actually sounds like a really good lesson Lev - I actually find I develop far more when things go wrong in a lesson initially.

Well, micro mare riding is a-go-go :D we had a little shoot forward when I first put my weight in the stirrup, but apart from that she was pretty solid - clever girlie. Just got on and had a little walk, will do some more in the week. No pics unfortunately as was on my own, but will try to enlist OH to take one next time - she actually didn't feel tiny at all, but I want to see whether I look ridiculous :o Off out now for a womble with the big man

Good luck to tomorrow's dressage divas
 
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