We schooled - for the first time in just over a month! Yay!
No pics as OH was lunging while I rode, but the two I schooled were slightly shocked at the concept - not only were we schooling, when they'd decided that their future was just hacking (and were very pleased with that development), but we were schooling on a sort-of-rolled grassy area out on one of those hacks, which still has little tyre tracks in places and is on a very gentle incline!
My pssm girl tried her hardest but was a bit like, 'I no longer have the muscles for this Mum!' - then she wanted to go for a good canter at the end 'cos she felt cheated out of her fun! Coblet was more amenable to the whole idea, although his eyes were on stalks at the location. We went round a fair few circles spooking slightly at the birds in the woods! It's a good experience for them though, and he is finding a use for the schooling, he needed help on the downhill slope not to lose the circle and end up in the crops/trees!
When I put coblet back in the field (he went second), he went up to my pssm mare (who went first) and had a pony conversation, nose to nose. I imagine he said something like, 'Did she do the circle thing with you too? It was really hard work! I thought she'd stopped doing that!'
