{"id":13426,"date":"2026-08-10T13:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/?p=13426"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:24:40","slug":"bella-stormy-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/bella-stormy-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella & Stormy – August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Golly gosh, it’s been about a month since riding S&B so today, riding both of them, is a complete joy \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n

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 \ud83d\ude0a\ud83d\ude0a\ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n

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 \ud83d\udc95 YEEHAA \u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n

\u2764\ufe0f 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 \ud83d\udc96<\/p>\n

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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 \ud83d\ude09 \ud83d\ude42 What a star \u2b50<\/p>\n

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Stormy checking out the cows and calves in the field below \ud83d\udc2e<\/p>\n

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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 \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n

what a good boy he is \ud83d\udc0e<\/p>\n

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Thu 14th<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lovely ride on Bella this morning…walk, trot and nice canter too…short but very sweet \ud83d\ude0a\ud83d\udc96<\/p>\n

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Sat 15th<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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 \ud83e\udd20\ud83d\udc0e\u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n

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Sun 16th<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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 \ud83e\udd20\ud83d\udc0e\ud83d\udc95<\/p>\n

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Getting better with the canter, around the ends in an arc too…one to the left, one to the right \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n

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Treats to start off<\/p>\n

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Some hugs and kisses afterwards \ud83c\udf1f<\/p>\n

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Wed 26th<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Today we finally had some ‘riding’ weather….cool, breezy and no flies \ud83d\ude0d SO…on that note, I rode Stormy, then Bella.<\/p>\n

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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 \ud83d\ude09 So proud of him \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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…AND BELLA…<\/p>\n

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 \ud83d\ude09 What a good girl \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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