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Fri 1st

Bella had her physio therapist Emily up today to give her a full body work. She found quite a lot of tightness in her right side sacral-iliac (hip) and she was quite sore there. She gave her some work on both hips, back, back legs, neck and head. Now she will have a couple of days off as she will be sore and then I can slowly and gently start her fitness work again. This will involve in-hand walk work for first week with some gentle agility involving backup and sidepass. 2nd week will be more walk work building up to walk/passenger lesson ridden but mostly I just have to take her at her own speed and she’ll let me know when she’s ready to be ridden more and go into trot and finally back into canter 😉

 

Mon 4th

So, it’s been 2 days since Bella had her therapy and now it’s time to start to have some interaction. Today we did some brain work…not a lot of action BUT these games really work on helping to re-connect after a break from riding. I gently ask a question and then Bella tries something and asks me whether that’s good. I always say ‘good girl’ but if I wanted something else I’d add ‘can you try something else?’. Today the questions were few as she ‘got’ what I was asking straight away, with all of them 😉

2 front feet in hula hoop / 2 back feet in hula hoop / 2 front feet over pole / right front over pole / left front over pole / back right over pole / back left over pole / right front and right back sidle over pole 😉 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She also did the calmest, slowest, nice walk circle left and then right and we walked up a stretch of the field just mirroring each other…..forward/halt/left/right/backup 🙂 F.A.B 😉

 

 

 

Tues 5th

2nd day of getting back to ‘work’ for Bella. Another round of S2M in walk doing nice rounded turns but also we did some large circles in walk plus some of the stuff we did yesterday with a twist SO circle in walk halting at the pole or hulahoop. Circle with a stop by the pole and sidepass together over it etc.  These sorts of things keep Bella’s brain exercised and we get so connected doing them 😉

 

Weds 6th

Trimmed all 4 of Bella’s hooves today and she was much easier to do her back hooves today. Last time she was a bit sore and I had to put her back legs down regularly and swap from one to the other to give her a break. Today she could hold her legs up for longer and not need so many breaks so she’s definitely feeling better in her hip area 😉

 

Thurs 7th

Very hot today but went down to see Bella, groomed her, fly sprayed her and then when a nice breeze came up and the sun went in for a spell I rode her bareback in a lovely nice walk. Her gait was big, rhythmic and very balanced, felt lovely 😉 Only did a bit but the start of more ridden work to rebuild our flexibility and fitness 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tues 12th

Today I got up early to feed the horses and poo pick the field. There was a lovely breeze in the air and there were no flies SO I also managed a nice, short-ish ride on Bella before the clegs started biting again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just a lovely big walk and a really lovely soft trot in a smallish arena area today. Nothing big as we need to just start fittening up again when we can. If the weather is cool with no flies then we can do it otherwise we’ll just have to wait 😉

 

 

 

 

Weds 13th

Another breezy, coolish day SO I ride Bella with Mark and Stormy too. Stormy just wanted to put his head down in the long grass but we all got a nice bit of riding in before Mark took Stormy back to the track. Bella wanted to be with Stormy so I did a wee bit of riding on the track in front of the arena. I was just asking for basic soft turns but she was quite braced especially going to the right so I just kept going in big fig 8’s trying to find relaxation, softness and flexibility and stopped when she got a good right turn. I played about with either putting weight onto my outside stirrup or my inside one to help get out of her way and for her to ‘find’ her curve both ways 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thurs 14th

A bright but cloudy day here with a nice breeze (most of the time). Mark and I take Bella and Stormy out for a short hack to the house and back. It’s the first time they’ve been out on this track since the land owner did some repair work making it a bit flatter but it also brought up a lot of stones. They both did very well but they definitely missed the green verge that got trashed in the repair work. Unfortunately when the sun came out and the breeze dropped we were inundated with flies and a lot of clegs (horseflies0, Stormy seems to handle them okay but poor Bella was driven a wee bit crazy and was jogging along the track, thrashing her head about and swishing her tail to get them off. I did my best to swat them off her and keep riding. We got some nice trot and a wee bit of canter so I’m not so worried about fittening her up, she moves fine when she wants to 🙂 lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lovely to hack out again on beautiful Bella…will hopefully invest in a zebra coloured riding fly rug and mask to make her, and my riding life, nicer 🙂

 

 

 

 

Fri 22nd

We’ve been having quite a lot of very very VERY HOT days here. The flies are pretty bad too, not just black flies but horseflies (clegs) which bite the horses and me!! So I’ve been just hanging out with them when I can, grooming and putting tons of fly spray on them and not much else. Today though we have slightly cooler weather with a nice breeze and although Ms Bella still doesn’t want to come out of the shelter (she does get bitten by clegs much more than Stormy) I decide to take Mr Stormy out into the long grass field for a wee ride.

Now we didn’t do much BUT we played the ‘ridden grazing game’ where we ride to a point, back up 4-6 steps, wait 4-6 seconds then he gets to graze a couple of mouthfuls of grass and then onto the next point and this works exceedingly well. Soon enough knowing the game we can ride on a loose rein. He also gives me a small bit of canter and then we go back onto the track for a double strength mint as a thank you 😉 He’s such a sweet horse, love him to bits <3

 

Morning snooze with the weather being cooler 😉

Start riding Stormy

 

 

 

Bella hiding out in the shelter

 

Storm and I having a nice wee ride

 

 

 

Grazing game working well with P2P’s

 

Nice canter up the hillock

 

 

 

Another nice canter up the hillock…he’s a wee prancing pony 😉

Grazing game working well, no grabbing for grass as he knows I’ll allow him on my cue

 

 

Treat instead of grazing for some variety

Nice loose rein trot

 

 

 

 

Love our big boy, he is so kind, generous and sweet natured <3

 

 

 

 

 

Sun 24th

A lovely play with Bella, she offered a lot of interesting stuff, checking in with me often to where we were having some nice conversations about obstacles 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then Stormy came over for a bit of a 2 horse play session….

 

 

 

 

 

 

….and then I had a lovely wee bareback ride on Bella….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fri 29th

 

A nice ride but Bella was a bit ‘fresh’

 

 

 

 

 

Need to rethink riding as sporadic riding is not good for consistency

 

 

 

 

Sat 30th

New regime from today….early morning feed time I get to play with Bella, see how she’s feeling. A few bits of yeehaa today BUT after her play we had a lovely ride in my ‘arena’ area 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sat 31st

Another early morning play and ride. This routine seems to be working nicely, cool weather, no flies and we get to play first and then ride some nice arena patterns. We only do about 20 mins but it’s going really well 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thurs 2nd

Well dear Bella seems to have hurt one of her legs, she’s slightly off sound and I think she may have either twisted her leg or hit one leg with another leg when she reacted/spooked big time on Tues with the mini Shetland on our hack out SO, I’ve giving her as much time off until she’s sound again.

With that in mind I had a lovely ride on big Stormy today. He did really well and benefitted from the slow stretch of his legs in walk first, then some nice bits of slow sit-able trot with a couple of blasts of canter for fun 😉

 

Nice walk out with some bits of trot

 

 

 

 

Fun canter

 

 

 

 

Bella waiting in the shelter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fri 3rd

Mark trimmed Storm’s hooves today so I put together a new agility course ready to be played with and then did some very small bits of play with Bella to give her mind something to think about 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She did SO well…think she’s missed our play sessions and hopefully next week we can do the agility course I set up. She loves thinking and working things out 😉

 

 

 

What a very clever girl she is.

So brave with the large flapping tarp on the fence 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not worried about putting foot in tyre either 😉

 

 

 

 

 

Sat 4th

 

HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY
BIG STORMY. 
Arrived with us at 11months old and the last 18yrs have been magnificent <3 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sun 5th

Still giving Bella time off riding but decided to stretch her legs a wee bit with some agility now that I’ve put a new course up 😉

 

< Under curtain

Through bunting lane >

 

 

 

 

< Trot over tarp

Trotting poles >

 

 

 

 

< Halt on water tray

Under arch >

 

 

 

< Sidepass over drainpipe

Halt front feet over pole >

 

 

 

 

 

< Back front feet off pole

Trot weave >

 

 

 

 

Trot/halt in flag square 😉

She did really well and each day is a bit more sound. She will have tomorrow off too as I’m working but I’ll sit on her on Tuesday to see how she’s ‘feeling’ 😉

 

 

 

Mark also rode Stormy today…with a saddle!!! nice to give it a go for a change and they had a nice wee ride with some agility thrown in too 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tues 7th

 

Lovely day for a ride today, nice breeze but warm and without any flies 😉 I’ve not ridden Bella for a week as she was coming up unsound and we think she twisted her ankle or hit herself when she spooked at the mini Shetland on our ride our last week SO…..

I gave her time out and checked her soundness every day. She was less unsound every day and today I decided to maybe do a short, quiet ride on her so I could ‘feel’ if she was better as it was getting harder to ‘see’ if she was unsound.

Started off in walk, quietly and with her not feeling on top form BUT she soon offered trot and was pretty rhythmic and stepping out with that. She also offered a lovely canter up a small hill which is where we ended the session 🙂

Hopefully she will continue to improve and I’ll get out to test ride her every other day so that she can rest between stretching being ridden.

 

Thurs 9th

 

Just a lovely day for a hack out

Decided on a different route, through nearby fields that farmer has no stock on at moment 😉

 

 

 

Using a large stone to remount after a wee bit of walking

 

Bella making sure the track is safe 😉

 

 

Lovely bit of trot and canter up this wee field

 

Following Mark and Stormy we rode as much on the grassy verges as possible

 

 

Really enjoying the track and views

 

Bella doing really well on uneven ground

 

 

 

Over a very large dry muddy part where forestry machines have churned up the field…both horses did exceptionally well over it 😉

 

 

 

Love this bit of field, it’s where I see a lot of fallow deer hanging out when walking our dog Beau.

 

Mark and Storm did a lovely canter up this hill, Bella and I waited for him to come back down…well Bella took the opportunity to graze 😉

 

Other side of the big hill we ventured through some lovely silver birch trees

 

Above the trees we had a wee trot/canter on this lovely piece of grass

 

Through last bit of field covered in small thistles then onto the track back to the field

 

 

 

 

 

Bella spies some overhanging silver birch branches…her favourite to snack on 😉

 

Last stretch of track above our field…home. Great fun ride out today 😉

 

Fri 10th

 

Another fab day…another fab ride out.

 

Same ride as yesterday but riddenthe other way around. Love a circular routed hack out 😉

 

 

 

Bella following Stormy nicely…she also did some leading so it was a good swap of the leader regularly

 

 

 

Storm following and Bella leading. She stopped for a good look at the fab views

 

 

 

 

Slowly going downhill…what a great field to ride in

 

 

 

 

Had lovely walk, nice trot and a fab canter or two

 

 

 

 

 

Last leg of the ride, it’s not a long ride but nicely varied 😉

 

 

 

One small look before going through the gateway

 

 

 

 

But then….the last track and field home 😉 yeehaa

 

 

 

 

 

Sun 12th

 

Nice ride today with Bella….offered a lot of trot

 

 

 

 

And also offered some canter on straight lines

 

 

 

 

Nice bit of exercise for us both, slowly get back into things making sure she’s not stiff or unsound still!

 

 

 

 

Fri 17th

Still working on helping Bella get fit but her wee bit of hq unbalance is not helping SO getting out Emily our Equine Therapist next week to go over her and see if anything untoward. Think it’s her hq’s as she doesn’t want to engage in canter although her trot has been steadily getting better and not ‘bobbing’ now! ;*(

 

 

Follow the leader with Mark and Stormy

Nice trot

 

 

 

Just a very short session with some stretching of her forelimbs in walk and trot

 

 

 

 

Love how they both walk with me on loose reins and I don’t have to hold the ropes 🙂 🙂

 

 

 

 

Weds 22nd

Bella has had some more time off whilst I was working away with some Horse Agility students in Aberdeenshire. Today I went down to the field, put up our own agility obstacles out in the field for us to play with and then played with Bella to check out her ‘soundness’ and to see if she’s feeling better.

 

Well Bella’s trot was on form today

 

Volunteered trot quite a lot which was fab

 

 

Her canter to the left wasn’t bad, she went into it nicely and was balanced and she seemed at ease

 

 

 

Going to the right though she was cross-firing (which means her front legs were correct for right canter but her back legs were moving as if in left canter…disunited canter). This can be caused by being unbalanced, soreness, pain or un-fit.

 

She has an equine therapist coming soon so we’ll know if the ‘mini Shetland’ incident caused some discomfort in her hq’s or sacral-iliac and hopefully put that right BUT I am also going to be going back in her fitness and start walking her out for a few weeks with nothing but walk.

 

I will then slowly bring trot back in with plenty of walk still, going up hills etc to build up her muscle again. I won’t be trying canter again for at least 2 months so hope this will help her regain her balance 😉

 

 

She did very well today and it sure was lovely to do have some fun play with her and connect back to her fabulousness <3

 

 

 

 

Thurs 23rd (Day 1 of fitness/balance training – walk only)

Just wanting to start helping Bella find her fitness and balance again I start a slow program of walking out for a bit today. The program will consist of lots of walking straight lines, around the field and around/through/over/under the agility obstacles I put out yesterday. Walking will continue for a few weeks building up to where we can start doing some trot on straight lines, walking the corners still. Then after a few weeks we’ll be working on walk/trot around the field. I will try my best to not canter for at least 2 months (unless she actually offers to canter) thereby working only on her fitness, muscling up and balance/coordination again.

 

Today we did just 15 mins of nice walk, not too fast but not a plod

 

 

 

We had fun with the obstacles…here we’re doing the curtain and there’s a blue tarp we’re walking on here…

 

 

 

Walking slowly through a weave pattern and again under the curtain

 

 

 

 

Slowly around the round pens and onto a slow weave around 4 flags

 

 

 

Very nice through the scary bunting land and took me flapping a flag about well too 😉

 

 

 

Love this pic….she’s such a beautiful horse 😉

Last was under the arch…just made it 😉

 

 

 

 

Fri 24th – (Day 2 of fitness/balance training – walk only)

So carrying on from yesterday Bella and I did a nice 20 mins walking but today we did 2 things differently…

1. Passenger lesson in walk – she can walk, go anywhere she wants and all I can do is ask her to continue walking if she stops and keep her from grazing her way around the field 😉
2. Took stirrups away – so we both started to lengthen our legs, I put my stirrups down a hole after this 😉

Bella’s walk was fabulous…strong, long, even and balanced and she was great in doing her own left AND right turns and moving about the field nicely without me doing a thing 😉 Passenger lessons are fabulous for letting go of ‘control’ and allowing the horse to have the freedom to choose where to go. With micro-managed horses (most regular trained ones) they often won’t walk on and/or only do left turns by a gateway as they find themselves a bit ‘lost’ without someone telling them what to do as it’s become habitual to surrender their wishes ;( I’m glad Bella wasn’t like that at all 😉

 

Couldn’t do full loose rein as the grass was just too tempting to stop and eat for Bella 😉

She went all over the field

 

 

Stirrups off, lovely to just plod about with Bella

 

Bella’s walk was really big and balanced

 

 

Finished with a lovely big walk around the round pens and then I put feet back into stirrups and put them down a hole…will see how that feels next time I get on! 😉

 

 

 

Weds 29th

Well…we’ve had rain, wind, rain and more wind these last few days. Really, REALLY boring as not able to do anything with horses apart from feed and keep their field clean BUT the dynamic duo are doing fine and enjoying some new strips of grazing every day or so 😉

< New grazing strip

Windy weather caused some obstacles in the field to fall down…also the strip grazing fence was down BUT not from our horses…..we have a lot of fallow deer and they must’ve run through it ;(

 

• Shelley – HorseSavvy

 

Sun 1st

 

Bella got a 3rd place rosette and Stormy got a 5th place rosette in a recent wee Equine Agility UK Easter course that we entered for fun 😉 Lovely rosettes 😉

SO…today Bella and I did our 3rd session of Cloverleaf freestyle riding (loose reins)…

 

 

She did really well….remembered the pattern and we did one round to the right in walk followed by a nice round in trot

 

 

 

 

And then we did exactly the same to the left and she was amazing…brought her BIG TROT and I held my nerve by keeping on ‘the buckle’ of the reins allowing us to connect through our focus, breathing, seat weight and leg cues 😉

 

 

 

Fabulous to get more freestyle now….going to do a few more rounds before changing the pattern to RtR fig 8’s 😉

 

 

 

 

Sat 7th

A nice bit of riding together with Mark and Stormy and also some ridden agility tasks. Fun day with neddies 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sun 8th

And today Bella and I started our Canter P2P’s…hope the weather stays with us so that we can get consistent with this 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thurs 12th

Today I trimmed Bella’s hooves and then had a short ride, it started to rain and get windy so stopped before we all got too wet 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fri 13th

Today there has been a nice breeze, mild with the odd drizzly shower and we managed to get out for a lovely hack to the house and back. It’s not far, roughly 2 miles round trip, but it’s a gorgeous track with hills, trees and great views and it was perfect for the day before I go away for a weekend Horse Agility Clinic in Aberdeenshire 😉

 

 

< Great that our horses will sidle up to anything to help us mount 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

Huge log piles from the trees that fell in Storm Arwen >

 

 

 

 

< Home 😉

 

 

 

 

< Back past the log piles..last time we came this way there were huge logging lorries here, think Bella was looking for them today.

 

 

 

 

< Love the views going back to the field >

 

 

 

 

< Back in the field >

 

 

 

 

 

< Just LOVE these two beauties >

 

 

 

 

< Start of the way home

Back in the field  >

 

 

 

 

Thurs 19th

 

2nd day riding after being away. Yesterday was a bit sticky, our connection not quite back but today was much better and we got to where we were sort of back to where we were before I went away teaching 🙂

 

 

Nice loose rein connection around obstacles, started with the regular routine weave and then moved onto being a bit more individual to (1) see how Bella would cope and (2) to keep the lesson fun and focused 😉

 

 

Checking our light lateral flexion…a nice herbal treat for such a good girl.

 

 

 

Started on nice walk/trot transitions whilst Riding the Rail (RtR). We had a fabulously slow sittable trot AND her lovely BIG trot which I rise to.

 

 

 

Great big trot will help us both get fitter 😉

 

 

 

 

And to finish on we did a couple of short canters to bring us back to where we were before I went away 😉 🙂

 

 

 

Fri 20th

Another fab RtR w/Fig 8’s day today 😉 Bella was fab with a lovely forward walk, slow and big trots and some more canter work. Really moving on with her training through progressive consistency 😉

 

< Groomed, fly sprayed up and ready to rock’n’roll 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

Sat 21st

Today we had mild weather with a cool breeze…perfect for a nice wee hack out with Bella, Stormy, Mark and me 😉

 

Haltered but ropes over necks they follow me to get groomed.

Off on the track for a hack

 

 

 

Horses love munching along the way, some silver birch, rowan and raspberry leaves today.

 

 

 

 

Stormy taking some grazing along the way

 

Bella out in front for a while

 

 

 

Waiting for Mark and Stormy to catch up, they followed grazing along the way.

 

 

 

 

I get off to take Bella over the bridge first, Stormy followed closely behind. Been a while since doing this ride so always allow them time to be confident.

Down a tight hill to a gate and Bella sidled up perfectly for me to remount 😉

 

 

Back on and ready to go again

Trotted back over the wooden bridge 😉

 

 

 

Really lovely to be able to ride this track

 

Bella and I stop to talk to a local along the way

 

 

 

Trotted back to Mark who had waited for me then slowly trek up the last hill to home

 

 

 

 

Bella at the field gate surveying her kingdom

 

Mark followed closely behind, closed the gate and took Storm’s bridle and pad off to wander down at his leisure 😉

 

 

Tues 24th

Today we’ve been trying to dodge rain today and managed to get to the field and groom B&S before the heaven’s opened up with HAIL!!! BUT after that stopped I had two very nice sessions with them and the agility obstacles.

 

 

 

1. Curtain
2. Sidepass fig 8

 

 

 

3. Into and back out of ‘T’ shape

4. Push ball

 

 

 

 

5. Trot over water tray

6. Trot over corner poles

 

 

7. Trot over tarp

8. Trot and halt in bunting/flag lane

 

 

 

9. Drag tarp

10. Walk with tarp over

 

 

 

AND All the same with Stormy but he did it at LIBERTY 🙂 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Storm gives the BESTEST big hugs 😉

Then I played around with the ball a bit…around Stormy bouncing it…

 

 

 

Then the ball over him and bounced off him

 

 

 

 

Finally both me and the ball under him 🙂 <3

 

 

 

 

Wed 25th

 

 

 

 

 

A lot of unsettled rainy days here at the moment SO trying to beat the weather I managed a nice half an hour session with Bella this morning after doing the poo picking 😉 SO

glad I did as just as I was untacking her the skies opened up AGAIN!

 

 

 

 

 

Fri 27th

Another lovely session with Bella, Storm and Mark 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sun 29th

Oh my gosh….Mark, Storm, Bella and I went out for a wee hack today. Intended to just go to the wooden bridge again and back BUT when we got to the bridge we decided to take a route across a couple of fields that we’ve seen locals walking. I got off Bella first to keep both our confidence in a strange place but got back on again after finding our way back to one of the village roads we know…but this was Bella’s first time on this road. We got so far and she and Storm decided they didn’t want to go any further SO I got off, Mark stayed riding.

We got a hundred yards further and past the village graveyard and past a tall hedge when a lovely wee black cob cantered over to his field fence and whinney’d. Stormy strutted over and sniffed noses with it and Bella waited patiently BUT before I knew it another mini Shetland pony galloped over to the fence, I was taken by surprise and Bella reacted very scared and spun around and sidepassed away from it. I don’t think she’s ever seen such a small fully grown horse and I’ve known other horses to find mini Shetlands worrying. I took her away from the field, hidden luckily by the big hedge and calmed her down…me too.

I didn’t want to have to walk by the field with Bella so scared and not wanting to upset our nice ride we decided to walk around the field opposite the pony one to give us a field away from them and then behind some houses to the village shop…phew! it worked nicely and we had a nice walk along a lane they could nibble on some tree leaves and cow parsley. Although Bella was now and then looking in the pony field direction she was calm and as this was a new track for her to negotiate I stayed walking beside her.

We got to the village shop and the lady there gave us two apples for Bella and Stormy. It was a nice reward and quenched their mouths on what turned out to be quite a long 4 MILE hack out. This is the furthest Bella has been and the longest they’ve been out on a hack. They were a bit tired and we walked them a bit of the way home but got back on and plodded the rest of the way home. Wow, what a nice ride, eventful but nice to take a slightly different route…but I’ll beware of that mini Shetland from now on! LOL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

<3 Lovely ride out <3

 

 

 

 

 

Tues 31st

Well it’s the end of May already and what have we achieved so far this year? Bella has started to be consistent in her 3 main gaits (walk, trot, canter), we’ve hacked out more and further and done some amazing agility courses in-hand and ridden. June will hopefully be a continuation of getting more stamina for good rides out with more canter work being progressively brought into the mix 😉

Today I trimmed her hooves and then had a nice short ride in the field. We’re both still a bit tired from our big ride out the other day so slowly doing more will keep things fresh and not overdo things for either of us 😉

 

Trot then a few bits of short canter work 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See you in June…yeehaa 🙂

• Shelley – HorseSavvy