weekend plans?

Well done MP!
I’ve decided to give myself an extra bank holiday and am taking Monday off. OH works in the RoI (but we live in NI) and their bank holiday is unchanged this year, so I’ve decided I’m having both. That means he finally has a chance to ride his horse! Dammit ? hopefully a nice long hack so I can run alongside.
Pic of the giant twit just because.. he thought it was hilarious to gallop up and down the field tonight screaming his head off ?


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My friend has sent me the plan for the Novice Lock down Western Trail comp so I have set it up and the ponies are learning how to side step. I feel that even if doing this only takes a few minutes each day it must at least be preventing them from going feral!
 
Loving my teaching - all my guys are trying super hard <3 and so much progress.
Little bit of "fitness" yesterday - bogged round like hooligans for a few laps and popped a few fences and a hack today. Bless supercob his weekends used to be so packed and now hes twiddling his thumbs waiting for me to finish teaching lol. He was in this weekend while I taught, but last weekend he stood and watched all my lessons, even after the herd had mooched off up the field lol
 
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Had a couple of good fun ridden sessions on M working on straight line canter departs from neck rein. Did our first outside lead selection today, one on each rein so chuffed with that because it means the chosen method is working. A bit too much bend maybe so will start to straighten the neck a little from now on.

I brushed and tail trimmed all 4 ponies, rasped 2 sets of feet.

Husband cut my hair. Not sure its particularly straight but nobody is looking lol will get a proper hairdresser before I go back out in public lol
 
Ted has had his slimming world weigh in and wants you all to know he is nearer 700kg than the 800kg he was. His shoulder bones can be seen, lets not talk about his ribs, they are in there somewhere, yet to be poked. I really must tidy him up !

He also has new buttons. He now has walk to canter, halt to canter buttons and a simple change on a straight line ! pretty awesome for a twittish cart horse.

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Don't normally share pics but I'm just so bloody pleased with him! He was absolutely fantastic this weekend. Had a truly brilliant ride on Saturday. Our pole exercise went better than I hoped and he felt great. He's starting to take a contact and let me ride him, and we had stretching down by the end. He's an absolute pleasure.
 
Had planned to do some polework in Saturday, but unfortunately lockdown is just the gift that keeps on giving - we had some absolute idiot fly a drone over where the horses were grazing, winding them all up. Took me almost an hour to get my boy in, he pulled me over in a blind panic (thankfully no harm done as I landed in a huge shrubby bit and managed to avoid slamming into the fence) and got himself in such a state I couldn't tell if he was tying up or just completely wired, so after breaking out of his stable 3 times I had no choice but to sedate him, so I spent my Saturday evening on colic/tie-up watch wonderful.
Managed to turn him out yesterday, he was not a happy bunny but soon settled when he realised it was gone. Went for a quiet mooch to check for any stiffness and seemed fine.
Between people feeding the horses, stealing gates, using remote controlled cars, playing golf, leaving gates open, kids SITTING on the horses and now the drones I am quite done with all of this :mad:
 
I schooled my mare twice seriously, so I thought we'd better do something silly and redress the balance back to "normal" ;)
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Captain Carrot is as charming and polite without a bridle as she is with one. The only difference is her genetic longing to roll peanuts in canter when free to do so :o
 
Had a great in hand session tonight. One of the recent virtual HHO clinics highlighted an issue with the right bend. This is easiest for me to start sorting from the ground, going back a few steps to work out where the brace is coming from.

So we started at the beginning with flexions in halt, worked through a couple of things and followed that through to exercises in walk and got a breakthrough. Day off tomorrow then we will do the same as today and try it ridden too.
 
Late again! In my defense, I work weekends and work has ramped up considerably in the last few weeks. L is having a quiet week, so have turned my attention to E the TB. I finally caved and have started lunging her in Vienna reins, turns out it was just the thing we needed to encourage the long and low on the lunge. Yesterday she even offered some canter and didn't disunite, so I am hopeful this will help encourage better topline and support for her KS, with the view to getting a new saddle soon. We also like to mooch along the road in a halter bareback, she loves poking around after a year of doing nothing! I love this horse, her temperament is amazing, with a touch of red TB mare sass thrown in ;)

The lovely lady herself:
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