{"id":5361,"date":"2020-10-31T20:29:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T20:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2020-12-04T21:34:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T21:34:32","slug":"bella-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/10\/31\/bella-november-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella – November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At last we have a dry pretty mild day….out with horses for some fun but not too much as don’t want to get them sweaty as not a lot of daylight at the moment and I don’t want them getting cold going into a cold night.<\/p>\n

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Lovely to get on Bella after so many rainy days.<\/p>\n

We did some nice one hand riding around the cones in fig 8 and weave patterns.<\/p>\n

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She was lovely through the trot poles in a tight serpentine using forward, dhq, forward \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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And a lovely sideways over a pole one way then back again….she really understands this move now \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Stormy being his normal fabulousness \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Bella and I using the obstacles in the circle weave for fig 8’s….<\/p>\n

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We don’t do two obstacles next to each other and we change the cone we go around to make the fig 8’s more interesting and spontaneous \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Treat for such a good girl.<\/p>\n

Last task is to check out some familiarisation with the new gateway. We’ve done it online with our ground work so she knows how it moves and sounds so big test now is to see how it goes ridden….<\/p>\n

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…this task really makes me see how well our connection and communication are now. We needed forward, back, sideways left and right and all with small steps one after the other. She did really well as had to push the gate open far to start with, put my feet\/legs up on her shoulders to get through the gateway to start with.<\/p>\n

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We did a quick trot around the inside of the round pen for a rest and then back to the gate where she sidled up to to our right to put the string back on it, this helps open\/close a gate with such a big horse as I can’t get to hold it open\/close from the saddle easily. Then out of the gateway nice and calmly ready to close it.<\/p>\n

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Forward to shut the gate then backup quickly to latch it up again. She was a star, more practise needed but a really really great first try \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Fri 6th Nov<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Quite sunny today but knew it wasn’t going to be there for long where we live amongst the hills SO out for a wee plod again and try not to make Bella or Stormy sweaty as their thick winter coats are coming in well now. SO, for the time coming over Winter I think we will try to do small, slow things WELL and today we started on some of them.<\/p>\n

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Walk and trot over random poles, almost like checking out a jump course but trying to be particular with our gait, focus and preciseness.<\/p>\n

Did a very nice sideways along a raised pole.<\/p>\n

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Stormy watching Bella.<\/p>\n

Once Bella understood the ‘game’ with the poles she went very well over them.<\/p>\n

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Focus, focus, focus \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Nice pedestal game before riding \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Then we went to Loose Rein riding with P2P’s. She went a bit crooked for a while and I did small, quick corrections then back to loose reins…<\/p>\n

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…and she started to get the game well and I hardly had to touch the reins. These small focus games are fun and very connecting \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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She did very well and I will continue to do more stuff in walk so as to not sweat her up.<\/p>\n

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Watching Stormy and Mark having a yeehaa…loving the horsey shadows \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Bella watching Mark and Storm while having a rest \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Sat 7th Nov<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A really beautifully sunny day today, blue skies, not warm but nice enough to take my fleece off \ud83d\ude09 yeehaa…out with Bella again for DAY 2 of the pole\/p2p workouts. First with the poles we tried our FIRST attempt with CORDEO which actually really well, backups were fab and turns were working much more on my focus\/energy\/weight cues\/outside leg \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Then we did some lovely P2P’s around the whole field and she put in some really lovely trot P2P’s too \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Start with some connecting S2M ground work with the poles. A nice treat before getting on to ride .<\/p>\n

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FIRST attempt with the CORDEO (neck rein) and she did so well. Backups were great and started really ‘feeling’ our turns working well.<\/p>\n

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Out into the main field for some loose rein P2P’s. I put lots of cones around the field to focus our focus on \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 She did really well once she realised the cones were there.<\/p>\n

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Bella put in some fabulous trot and felt really freeing to not pick up the reins and to just focus on our destination.<\/p>\n

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Lovely connection by the end of the session \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Sun 8th Nov<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Today I saw the forecast from 12 noon onwards was rain, rain, rain SO decided to do the morning horse breakfast\/poo picking session and to chance trying a ride in the morning…a FIRST for us and yes this is what I did. Bella didn’t worry about the time of day and we had a lovely 3rd consistent session of pole and P2P work \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Great P2P’s today, lovely consistent loose rein we felt in harmony and focusing together more.<\/p>\n

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Put a light weight rug on her afterwards, not really sweaty today but felt she was quite warm and the day was quite chilly so didn’t want her getting cold. The rug came off an hour later and she was fine with that too \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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End of yesterday’s P2P session:<\/strong><\/span>
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