Post by fimacg on Jun 28, 2010 14:00:43 GMT
Thought I would post a cheerful thread to remind those who are having a rough time at the moment why we keep our horses.
It hay making time around me at the moment so all the gates to the various hay fields are open and I can get places I normally don't have access to due to locked gates, stock or crops (including hay crops) its been dry for so long up here all the hay and silage has already been cut and in all but two fields has been baled.
Yesterday I took chompy down the road, galloped around three hay fields before finding a ford (or what is usually a ford), however the burn is really dry so instead of it being about 8' wide and fording across it is about 2'wide in a ditch, wa-hay... water jump!!! so had some XC practice with him before coming home.
Then took Brave up the road to the village, but the flies were dreadful and we were both being eaten alive so I decided to come home the long way (but faster paced). Been working on more forwards from the leg with him however like any green horse now any leg means go faster and he has started running through the bridle when he gets excited, so we had a very controlled dressage canter up a track we usually fly along, we had a few head tosses and a bit of sideyways before he settled, then we did some walk/trot/canter/trot/walk transition exercises in the next gallopy field before he was submissive enough for me to let rip... and then we flew... up the final side of one field and then along 2 sides of the last field (great cos all uphill) before popping back out onto the road 3 fields down from my house. And even better as soon as I asked him into the bridle when we were back on the road he gave it to me without any complaint.
It hay making time around me at the moment so all the gates to the various hay fields are open and I can get places I normally don't have access to due to locked gates, stock or crops (including hay crops) its been dry for so long up here all the hay and silage has already been cut and in all but two fields has been baled.
Yesterday I took chompy down the road, galloped around three hay fields before finding a ford (or what is usually a ford), however the burn is really dry so instead of it being about 8' wide and fording across it is about 2'wide in a ditch, wa-hay... water jump!!! so had some XC practice with him before coming home.
Then took Brave up the road to the village, but the flies were dreadful and we were both being eaten alive so I decided to come home the long way (but faster paced). Been working on more forwards from the leg with him however like any green horse now any leg means go faster and he has started running through the bridle when he gets excited, so we had a very controlled dressage canter up a track we usually fly along, we had a few head tosses and a bit of sideyways before he settled, then we did some walk/trot/canter/trot/walk transition exercises in the next gallopy field before he was submissive enough for me to let rip... and then we flew... up the final side of one field and then along 2 sides of the last field (great cos all uphill) before popping back out onto the road 3 fields down from my house. And even better as soon as I asked him into the bridle when we were back on the road he gave it to me without any complaint.
