Mon 10th
Golly gosh, it’s been about a month since riding S&B so today, riding both of them, is a complete joy 😍
I hadn’t ridden due to too hot weather with flies then constant rain (which we needed) and also from having tweaked my back a few weeks ago it was too painful and risky to ride. I’ve been resting my back a lot and the last two days haven’t been nearly so bad SO with my back brace on I decided today was a good day to ride Bella and then I just had to ride Stormy too 😊😊😊
They both were lovely to ride, both gave me strong walks, ryhthmic trots and smooth canters…with Bella cantering parts of some circles and Stormy doing canter weave 💕 YEEHAA ❤️😍
❤️ Here’s Bella’s route, we started on some circles as I wanted her to find more symmetry and find her balance turning left and right circles. I continued this pattern as she then did trot better and finally some really nice canter bits of circle too. Not bad for a month off 💖
With Stormy I wanted to keep things interesting SO we started off with some big fig 8’s around the field and then I thought he’d enjoy some weaving…we started in trot but he said ‘hey mom, trots boring,,,,lets canter weave’ SO we did 😉 🙂 What a star ⭐
Stormy checking out the cows and calves in the field below 🐮
Then to save me taking his tack off and going back for the quad bike I lead him from the quad bike back to where I take his tack off 😊
what a good boy he is 🐎
Thu 14th
Lovely ride on Bella this morning…walk, trot and nice canter too…short but very sweet 😊💖
Sat 15th
We’ve had Mark’s grand neice (16yrs old) with us for the last two weeks (from New Jersey USA – home on Monday) and it was time for her to get a lesson on big Stormy. He was amazing, he’s a good teacher now and he was very gentle with her…she thoroughly enjoyed herself and hats off to her for taking up the challenge of sitting/riding such a big horsey 🤠🐎❤️
Sun 16th
A bit of time this afternoon to move all the agility obstacles into the larger field area and then took a ride on Bella to make sure it was all good 🤠🐎💕
Getting better with the canter, around the ends in an arc too…one to the left, one to the right 😍
Treats to start off
Bits of the agility course
Some hugs and kisses afterwards 🌟
Wed 26th
Today we finally had some ‘riding’ weather….cool, breezy and no flies 😍 SO…on that note, I rode Stormy, then Bella.
First…STORMY…
Agility bits done for fun with the big boy this morning. I used mostly one hand on the reins and he ‘neck reined’ most all of the course 😉 So proud of him 😉
…AND BELLA…
Lots of in’s and out’s of the agility course, took it slow to start with, trotted it again to make sure she was suppling up and flexible and then did a bit of canter to finish 😉 What a good girl 😉
- 🤠 Shelley – HorseSavvy.co.uk