Weekend plans

mine are just back jumping after hols and now I hear Scotland is to by a "snow bomb" on the plus side mental mare jumped round a 90 at an arena hire and "reliable but being ruined by idiot rider" jumped 1m05. now2 I felt confident as was lied to. any tips on transferring that to a 1m class
 
buddylove said:
Recovering - pile driven into arena floor on Thursday night. God knows why but properly knocked out, ambulance, CT scan, the works. No serious damage but v. Concussed, today is the first day I've been awake for more than 3 hours in a row!! Was just getting all prepped for our first dressage comp as well 🤕
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Oh dear. These things happen so out of the blue. I hope your feeling better. Be sure to follow the doctors advice. It's very important with head injuries x
 
Ouch buddylove! Good to hear your on the way up again though.

Pie's mum - what a stressful day! But well done on the win :)

Great to read everyone's reports, it sounds like lots of fun has been had! Sadly I decided to withdraw from the CT - things at home are tricky at the moment and having had a difficult Saturday evening and very little sleep I felt physically and emotionally exhausted. If someone else had been driving I would have gone but towing a trailer for 90 minutes in each direction felt like a very bad idea! So I got a bit more sleep, talked a lot then took both horses in the school for some pole work. I think it's the first time I've withdrawn from a comp other than for horse lameness!

I'm looking forward to this week though, lesson at AMD on Wednesday then dressage comp on Sunday all with Indio :D
 
j1ffy said:
Ouch buddylove! Good to hear your on the way up again though.

Pie's mum - what a stressful day! But well done on the win :)

Great to read everyone's reports, it sounds like lots of fun has been had! Sadly I decided to withdraw from the CT - things at home are tricky at the moment and having had a difficult Saturday evening and very little sleep I felt physically and emotionally exhausted. If someone else had been driving I would have gone but towing a trailer for 90 minutes in each direction felt like a very bad idea! So I got a bit more sleep, talked a lot then took both horses in the school for some pole work. I think it's the first time I've withdrawn from a comp other than for horse lameness!

I'm looking forward to this week though, lesson at AMD on Wednesday then dressage comp on Sunday all with Indio :D
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Hope all is as okay as it can be j1ffy and that your lesson and comp goes well with the frankly stunning Indio!! Very interested in his progress (just can't beat a good grey)
 
Oh BL that sounds awful, hope you are feeling a bit more normal soon - concussion is so horrendous :(

MP Salty is looking more grown up everytime you post pictures of her, and Kira just sounds like an absolute blast!

RO - I've just followed your instagram for more Chilli goodness, shes so pretty!

J1ffy, sounds like you made a good call, driving all that way and trying to compete in the middle when your head is all over the place is more stressful than its worth. Hope things can work themselves out for you soon.

Our weekend came to and end before it had really began, Ruby was a nightmare again on Thursday, just felt ridiculously hot and agitated, i'd put it down to lack of turn out and too many oats. Went to our jump lesson on Friday and she was still being overprotective on her left rein but quite flat and not happy, we worked through a couple of pole exercises not using the reins at all and she was ok, but I knew she wasn't right so wasn't really riding properly so that wasn't helping, so I had a little breakdown and we called it a day. But positives to take away, at the begining of the lesson my instructor and I were chatting and he was asking me about aims for the horse and he just said, 'if you want to go 1* this horse will go 1*, if you want to go 2* this horse will go 2*. Just stay patient' - which nearly made me cry especially when I feel that at the moment getting around a 100 is beyond us. Then at the end after my breakdown he got on for 5 mins because I thought she was broken (i'm always in quite a delicate state when it comes to this horse :D) and declared that if I didn't want her, he'd take her off my hands, horses like her don't come around very often.

Afterwards we had a real poke around in her mouth and she has a small split, not in the typical place so not sure what/ how that's happened as shes been going so well, its on the right side not the left but its enough to upset her so have given her couple of days off and will ride in the hackamore for the week to let it settle. Withdrew from the Merrist Wood Arena Eventing so just has a nice chilled day watching TV, hand grazing Ruby and faffing in the lorry :)
 
We had a fun day out yesterday. The plan was to go somewhere local and fun so Daisy stops associating the trailer with 2+ hour trips and lots of hard work; after a recent 2 hour task to get her to load to come home.
This is also the first time she's been anywhere other than where I keep her and where she was born; I think. We had a slightly lively ride on Saturday and also a trip round the block on the trailer.
Sunday morning got everything ready and went to load and she stopped at the bottom ramp and said are you really sure, I said yes and on she popped :) Instantly started river dancing and shouting but she stops once were moving so hopped in the car and off we went.
Got to the venue very early as I allowed a lot longer for loading but this meant it was all calm and room to park up, although more shouting and river dance from Daisy whilst I did the gate.
She unloaded fine and I loaded her back on twice just to check, no problems there. Stood happily munching haynet when surprised by a free range Shetland. I'm not sure Daisy has seen a horse smaller than she is before and was most bemused as was I, however Shetland was very polite and wandered off in search of food.
I was very nervous but the lady who was teaching arrived and was very understanding of my terrible nerves so tacked up and lead Daisy round the arena and a little in hand work just to check she'd settled then time to get on. At this point it go very busy outside, horses, trailers, lorries, quad bikes, kids you name it so getting on was difficult as the mounting block was right by the commotion and my nerves froze my legs! So move horse and mounting block to other end and hop on no bother, she didn't move a hoof. Happily mooching round the arena with another nervous lady and the kids came in , really nice kids but small children on small whizzy ponies trotting around was another new thing for Daisy , especially when the tiny tot on an even smaller Shetland arrived. Daisy was shocked that both horses and humans could be so small, she couldn't taker her eyes off them for a while but it's hard to be nervous with a happy toddler singing away on the back of his Shetland led by his Dad! So cute! So all settled down and I remembered to breath. In the end there was 10 of in a small arena so rather packed plus tea urns, stalls at one end, barrels with flags on and a crowd in the viewing area with things falling off the side into the arena. So busy atmosphere!
I enjoyed the clinic, Daisy was most intrigued by the barrels but happy to slowly approach them in ever decreasing circles and she demonstrated stopping on voice commands very well. Apparently the idea for barrel racing is to get the horse responding to your voice so you can keep other aids to minimum. So we just did the barrel patterns in walk and jog and worked on turning and stopping off the voice.
Then the next group came in and although I could have stayed it was getting up to about 13 in the arena with a few more high energy horses than I was comfy with so we exited.
Thankfully I wasn't parked in as the place was packed, such a big turn out but now the big test would she load?
She hopped straight on and despite shouting her head off as we left seemed very happy with her day and even happier to be back in her field by 1pm. I did pop her back on the trailer twice at home as soon as she came off, again no bother.
I'm very pleased with how well she behaved and how chilled out she was, I do need to stop being so nervous as she is really no bother. The instructor was lovely again but for future I might try a clinic with her somewhere a little less busy; although free range shetlands are now on the OK list :) Also the arena and surface at the venue yesterday were both fab, really nice it was an odd sort of sand and fibre mix that had actually mixed to from a sort of springy matt, I've not seen it before but Daisy seemed to like it too.
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Sounds like a positive outing Alibear - your mare is lovely. Where are they doing barrel racing now? They were using Norton Heath, but I presume not now - if there's any local to me, I'm totally taking my QH - she'd love it :D
 
rosiesowner said:
Hope all is as okay as it can be j1ffy and that your lesson and comp goes well with the frankly stunning Indio!! Very interested in his progress (just can't beat a good grey)
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It will all be ok in the end (probably in under a month!) and if it's not ok it's not the end ;) I promise to post pics of Indio as long as you post more of the gorgeous Chilli!

LP - despite the downers that's a very positive update from your trainer. How exciting!!

Alibear - that sounds like a very positive outing too. Well done on getting out there and having such a good day :D
 
j1ffy said:
It will all be ok in the end (probably in under a month!) and if it's not ok it's not the end ;) I promise to post pics of Indio as long as you post more of the gorgeous Chilli!

LP - despite the downers that's a very positive update from your trainer. How exciting!!

Alibear - that sounds like a very positive outing too. Well done on getting out there and having such a good day :D
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Good out look to have J1ffy, hope you are right :)

I did have to point out to him that he said the horse could go 2* but nothing about me being able to :D :D
 
Not sure how to post vids so you'll just have to take my word for it that we whizzed around course hire nicely and both me and horse felt a lot more confident about things. Whoop.
 
Just wanted to check back in and thank you for the well wishes.
Yesterday was pretty dire as associated whiplash pain kicked in and I felt awful. Toddled off to the quacks this morning (and cried on him, poor fella)! But he kindly gave me some naproxen for the pain and signed me off for a week to regroup my remaining brain cells. So feeling more human now, but one of the worst falls I have had for a while. Let's hope that's my quota done for a while, I am much too old for dirt eating malarkey xxx
 
Bernster said:
Not sure how to post vids so you'll just have to take my word for it that we whizzed around course hire nicely and both me and horse felt a lot more confident about things. Whoop.
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I've seen the vids and confirm it all looks terrific :D
 
We’re doing our first ever local jumping competition and I’m already nervous. It’s only 50cm and we’ve jumped higher then that at home but it’s all fairly new to us.
 
buddylove said:
Just wanted to check back in and thank you for the well wishes.
Yesterday was pretty dire as associated whiplash pain kicked in and I felt awful. Toddled off to the quacks this morning (and cried on him, poor fella)! But he kindly gave me some naproxen for the pain and signed me off for a week to regroup my remaining brain cells. So feeling more human now, but one of the worst falls I have had for a while. Let's hope that's my quota done for a while, I am much too old for dirt eating malarkey xxx
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It's good that your taking the week off to rest. I'm sure that's your quota of falls done for a good few years!
 
Glad to hear you're on the mend, bl - sending quick-recovery vibes.

Kira's lesson was bumped a day so we headed over today, really good fun session - I just love her to bits, she's trying so hard and got lots of good feedback that the improvements I am feeling day by day really *are* there, I'm not imagining it! Good work on the half steps which are starting to develop a decent rhythm, and the little piris that we discovered last week are good enough to press on with - so nearly there! Forgot how to ride in the tempis but that's just a blip :p Eyeing up a show at the beginning of feb to try out A105 which will be a good diagnostic :p

*waves* to jiffy, hope you had a good ride :)
 
Had a good flat/pole lesson with a new-ish trainer (had one lesson with her about six years ago) Monday night, which made up for our disappointing show results at the weekend - managed to persuade Beau that he *can* do changes and stay round/soft while doing them. Got 5 nice clean changes in a row the next day so ended our session there before I could ruin it... ;)

Have booked in for a jumping lesson with her the next time she’s over using my arena so we’re prepared for the training show and cat 2 show I’ve got pencilled in for the beginning of February
 
MP - it was great to meet you, albeit briefly! Loved our lesson, I wish Adam was closer. Only two weeks until I’m back there with Pocholo though!

BL - good to hear you’ve got a week off, take it easy!

BM - good to hear you’re jumping again soon, you’ve been doing a bit to well on the dressage front and been putting us divas to shame :D.

Bernster - I believe you! Well done :)
 
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