{"id":5202,"date":"2020-10-01T14:28:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/?p=5202"},"modified":"2020-10-31T20:28:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T20:28:47","slug":"bella-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/10\/01\/bella-october-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella – October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fri 2nd Oct<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today is a nice dry day between rainy ones so time to get out with Bella and Stormy. Firstly Mark and I put neater edges to the horses hooves after the farrier yesterday. Their hooves needed tidying up in shape, take away the flare and put mustang rolls on. Also re-plugged a couple of holes Bella has at the moment to stop WLD. With all that done we groom them and I tack up Bella. I wasn’t intending to do too much as she’s just come off a ‘season’ so with that in mind we plodded about for a wee bit then did some nice patterns.<\/p>\n

We started off with walk\/trot transitions and put in some lovely walk\/back\/walk\/back transitions through a narrow pole\/jump wing lane (part of her Stage 2 assessment). We then got a bit more energy and put in a couple of low jumps (Stage 2 assessment task). Then I went out into big field and did a fabulous trot clover leaf L&R, she didn’t change gait once and stayed on the pattern really well, impressed with her trot energy and focus on the task with little adjustments from me we rode in harmony nicely.<\/p>\n

I then went to try out some canter and we did our FIRST trot\/canter\/trot\/canter transitions (did about 6 of them..yeehaa) \ud83d\ude42 Really REALLY pleased with these, was counting 4-6 canter strides and she came back down really nicely. She then did her best, so far, sidepassing L&R….she really struggled to do a sidepass to the left but she has got the good body\/voice cues well now and it felt much more fluid \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Tues 6th Oct<\/strong><\/p>\n

Between showers today we had a lovely hack out. Both Bella and Stormy had a wee worry about going up one part of the new track (close to very noisy full river from all the rain recently) so I got off and led Bella with Mark riding Stormy behind up the ‘narrow track lane’. They both did well and at the top I re-mounted from a gateway which Bella sidled up to beautifully. The hack was good and it was good for me to decide to just get off and do the track bit rather than turn around and not do it because the horses were a bit worried….helps all our confidences to DO the thing that worries us but to do it in a way that was MY decision helped even more…I’m so glad that natural horsemanship has taught me that it’s okay to do that, win-win situation \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Thu 8th Oct<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nice, fun, agility day today. Bella had some really nice FIRSTS:
\n1) Back through narrow gap with raised pole
\n2) Sidepass over raised pole
\n3) Continuous trot circles over tarp
\n4) Trot through the archway \ud83d\ude42
\n5) Circle and halt in pole square \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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She also did a fabulous Ridden Agility lesson with some new FIRSTS too…riding under the archway being one of them \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Here’s the video of it all too…<\/p>\n