Weekend Plans

[CanteringCarrot]

Anyone?


I have nothing planned so...nothing to see here.

 

[The Xmas Furry]

I shall be hacking tomorrow and Saturday.
Sunday am booked into 1st clinic of the year for us, indoor sj at a place I've not yet been to. Just looked it up and found it's about an hour trip each way, earlyish start then..... sigh.

 

[teapot]

Officially handed my job over yesterday so with a free day I managed to get two lessons tomorrow

 

[LEC]

I have farmed my good vet student out to jump horses for people and me. Taking both horses to do grids on Saturday. I will probably ride one and put vet student on the other. Probably going with bounce, short 1 upright - short 1 upright - short 1 oxer as a favourite.

I am teaching on Sunday - Polework and jumping. Not so good vet student will be one of those having a lesson on the horse who is behaving itself at the moment and I need to make a plan for the other horse who is being a bit of a naughty baggage at the moment. Probably trot her up some very steep hills or give her a gallop on the beach where she will be in draw reins or she spends a lot of time trying to buck me off and the going faster theory to stop it bucking fails as she spooks at things.

 

[Roxylola]

I snuck a day off in today - I often book odd days early in the year to help power through the dark and cold. Rode twice today, but I'm back working tomorrow, then a quiet day Saturday- hacking probably at some point. Sunday, I've a fair bit of teaching, a young horse I'm riding a bit for someone to hack, and my two to hack. Nothing exciting, but plenty busy

 

[little_critter]

We are off to our first dressage comp since September. Feeling rather unprepared because T keeps swinging from spooky loon to flat as a pancake. I tried to practice our tests this evening but he was frustratingly spooky so everything was messy.
Usually he’s better when out and about (and in the daylight) so I’m hoping he will redeem himself.

 

[Accidental Eventer]

Well, we are all feeling a bit low here! It’s hot, we are breaking heatwave records and will continue to be locked off from the world for an indefinite amount of time.

Hopefully I’ll get a ride in Sunday morning if it cools down a little. Things look a little cooler in the week so I’m going to ride as much as I can, coolie has the vet on Tuesday to assess where he is at in terms of soundness and he’ll probably have some joints injected.

Henry and I have a clinic on Wednesday which I am looking forward too. I can’t wait for comps to start up again here, March is so far away!

 

[Chippers1]

Got an SJ clinic on Sun so looking forward to that, if a little nervous. Hope Buzz will be as full of himself as he has been recently.
Enjoy your weekends everyone

 

[j1ffy]

The usual gossip hack today - I think we're escorting someone else on their new ex-racer today as well but the horse seems very chilled so not expecting fireworks.

I've got a schoolmaster lesson tomorrow morning and will then inflict my learnings onto Chilli in the afternoon Girls' night out on Saturday evening so plans for Sunday will depend on how I'm feeling!!

 

[J_sarahd]

Not much for us this weekend. I will probably jump in the school on Saturday but I’m going car shopping on Saturday morning for a towing car. Fingers crossed this means a new car soon so I can go out competing and training properly again as I am aiming to do our first BE in April - very scary stuff!

Sunday will probably be a hack. He was going to have it off as OH was meant to be competing (he does crossfit) but he’s hurt his back, so pulled out. So a pootle down the lane and a nice canter will do us just fine.

 

[milliepops]

nowt, as usual... I'm still flummoxed that having 7 horses means you actually need to have 8 in order to have something to ride

Anyway. I am planning to attempt to put Kira in the field tomorrow. I don't expect she will want to stay there on her own, but she has been in the box since early Nov so there is a possibility that she will be so delighted with the idea that she will forget she doesn't do anything solo. i will be lurking around anyway just in case she has a meltdown. Frank's leg is looking good but still a good couple of weeks off being healed over for turnout. otherwise, general chores, stewing on things and working out how to do the next leg of Horse Logistics.

 

[ArklePig]

I have a lesson tomorrow- Finbar is feeling good and my pelvis is finally healed so I am excited for us to get back where we were. First time in a while I've been feeling positive about my riding.

 

[ihatework]

nowt, as usual... I'm still flummoxed that having 7 horses means you actually need to have 8 in order to have something to ride

Anyway. I am planning to attempt to put Kira in the field tomorrow. I don't expect she will want to stay there on her own, but she has been in the box since early Nov so there is a possibility that she will be so delighted with the idea that she will forget she doesn't do anything solo. i will be lurking around anyway just in case she has a meltdown. Frank's leg is looking good but still a good couple of weeks off being healed over for turnout. otherwise, general chores, stewing on things and working out how to do the next leg of Horse Logistics.

Frank must be very close to being a ridden pony soon ????

Nada on for me this weekend. Well nothing pony wise anyway. Tennis lesson on Saturday and netball training Sunday

 

[MuddyMonster]

I'm not entirely sure yet, as I have a busy non-horsey weekend.

I'm hoping I have the chance to squeeze hacks in both days, but I'll try to squeeze a schooling session in if not.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend & extra good luck vibes for milliepops gang.

 

[milliepops]

Frank must be very close to being a ridden pony soon ????

yes hopefully. he is healing up really well but it's that last little frustrating bit that we all need to be patient for as soon as he has had a few days turnout i'll get cracking with him again

 

[SEL]

nowt, as usual... I'm still flummoxed that having 7 horses means you actually need to have 8 in order to have something to ride

Anyway. I am planning to attempt to put Kira in the field tomorrow. I don't expect she will want to stay there on her own, but she has been in the box since early Nov so there is a possibility that she will be so delighted with the idea that she will forget she doesn't do anything solo. i will be lurking around anyway just in case she has a meltdown. Frank's leg is looking good but still a good couple of weeks off being healed over for turnout. otherwise, general chores, stewing on things and working out how to do the next leg of Horse Logistics.

I seem to be up to 3 and needing a 4th to actually ride.

Perhaps a hobby horse so I can't break it.

Good luck with Kira and the next stage of horse logistics!

 

[HufflyPuffly]

Pony introduction supervision here.

Topaz has taken a dislike to new baby pony ? so I’ve separated them. I’m flummoxed to be honest as she has always loved all other horses so I was totally not prepared for her meanness!

Any tips gratefully received, every other horse she’s gone up to sniffed, potentially squealed (she is a mare ?) and then been bffs with…

I don’t know what her issue is, I think she’s a love ?.

Topaz:”if I don’t look at her it’s all fine…”

 

[iknowmyvalue]

Dressage lesson tomorrow at home, then an arena eventing clinic with Ros Canter at her yard! I put my brave pants on and put myself down for the 90cm group so fingers crossed Pepsi is on side!

 

[Season’s Bleatings]

An outing planned for tomorrow for me! A local venue is running arena eventing, you can do any combination of the phases so I’m going to do a test and a quick round of jumps, no mad heights cos I haven’t jumped much lately, 80cm will do!! No xc, not brave enough atm ?

 

[Bernster]

Quiet one here too, in between course hire last weekend and sj lesson next weekend.

Have moved onto practising dressage test movements in the school, as prep for actual stressage. Eeek. The wheels fell off a bit when I tried it on monday but ins got me back on track in our lesson last nights, and it wasn’t a complete disaster. Some useful tips though.

Will look for arena hire to practice white boards and be in a standard size school (ours is a square and not 40m long sadly) and somewhere for a first (for us) outing in March. Feb is booked up already with jumping stuff, yay.

 

[Pippity]

Blue's arthritis has flared up recently, due to a combination of cold weather and general muscle ickiness (technical term) from tying up. She was only 1-2/10 lame on trot-up but the fact she was napping on a hack suggests she's more uncomfortable than she shows. Vet and I are both reluctant to do more hock injections while it's too dark for me to rehab her properly, so instead she's being buted up. She isn't being buted up TO ride, but the bright side is that it means I CAN ride her, so the plan is to start gradually fittening her up, so I can crack on with rehab once it's light of an evening. Lots of hacking. So much hacking. (Note to self: This is NOT an excuse to buy more hi-viz. You already have more hi-viz than you can wear.)

 

[milliepops]

Kira had 2 hours in the field

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Kira had 2 hours in the field

Levitating.... hopefully not for all the 2 hours! ?

 

[milliepops]

Levitating.... hopefully not for all the 2 hours! ?

lolol no actually she was pretty quiet, this was after the longest roll in history. she was very jolly to come in again but the YOs gardener was hauling lumps of tree around so her neighbours were having a funny 5 mins which didn't help

 

[little_critter]

Dressage test this morning looked ok on paper but actually felt dire. Theo has gone really flat, we struggled through the warmup and first test and withdrew from the 2nd test.
Now researching feeds to see if that can help him (please see my thread in Feeding asking for suggestions)

 

[Season’s Bleatings]

Dressage test this morning looked ok on paper but actually felt dire. Theo has gone really flat, we struggled through the warmup and first test and withdrew from the 2nd test.
Now researching feeds to see if that can help him (please see my thread in Feeding asking for suggestions)

Interesting, I was out today and my big fella def felt a little flat in dressage too. We did a polite test and I was happy with the score but def lacking a bit more of oomph, I expected him to be a bit sharp as v buzzy atmosphere etc.

Leads into my update on today I suppose! As above, dressage was a little flat but actually some parts I was very pleased with, he’s starting to feel very relaxed and fluid which is lovely, judge was happy too, 73.3% in BE90 92. I did consider doing one of the BE100 tests but I wanted to get home at a sensible time, and I was a bit stressed about the SJ so thought better to pick my battles ?

So onto the SJ, we were entered into the 80 class. I haven’t jumped properly in a while so not sure what possessed me? Anyway, he warmed up nicely, very keen and much more switched on than he was in dressage (maybe trying to tell me something?).

Into the arena and fence 1 & 2 were a tad sticky, my fault for riding with all the finesse of a concrete slab so I gave myself a mental kick up the bum at 3 and everything improved a lot from there. Fences 4 and 5a/b had caused a few issues but the big lad sailed over them happily. Rest of the course went smoothly and delighted to finish with a double clear. Might be brave and try a 90 next, might not. Who knows?

Pic of the lad in all his cute glory. Big horse problems, they make the jumps look smaller and less scary than they really are!

 

[GinaGeo]

We went to a Cross Country Circuit today. Spent the journey there hoping it would be sufficiently thawed - it was a very good, well maintained surface so fortunately we were fine.

Had a good canter and did some jumping. Had fun putting some interesting lines together, which he enjoyed. He’s so economical over a fence and very consistent in his rhythm that he makes my job much easier.

Need to keep the momentum going now ?

 

[CanteringCarrot]

To those whose horses are feeling a bit flat, could it be coat change? They should be getting rid of, or preparing to get rid of their winter coat and grow in their summer coat now that the days are getting longer. Plus, if the weather is warmer in your neck of the woods, that could make them a bit flat.

 

[Bernster]

Kira had 2 hours in the field

that photo is hilarious !

 

[southerncomfort]

Kira had 2 hours in the field

I think she's happy! ?