{"id":7571,"date":"2022-02-28T20:37:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/?p=7571"},"modified":"2022-03-31T21:38:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T21:38:11","slug":"bella-march-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/bella-march-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella – March 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A lovely start to the month with some mild-ish weather and some sunny spells. Went and groomed Bella then decided to take a wee ride as well \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Getting straighter with sidepassing<\/p>\n

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Loose rein trot to cones and turning around cones using DHQ<\/p>\n

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New task is to ask for sidepassing over the log lengthwise. Okay with front legs, little unsure with backs at the moment. Always fun to have something to work on \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Lovely spending the morning with the gang, they followed me around while I did the poo-picking which is always lovely \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Sat 5th<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trimmed Bella’s hooves today and Stormy hung out with Mark \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Then had a nice short bareback ride on Bella…always helps relax my back after trimming her \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Started off todays fun with Storm and Mark playing around with agility obstacles \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Then we did a ride around together. taking it slowly at this start of the year.<\/p>\n

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And then I do a bit of solo work with Bella<\/p>\n

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Managed to ride both Storm and Bella today \ud83d\ude09 \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Stormy: Rode to get back our focus after winter and also cooperation as Storm has a strong personality and wants to just do his thing so I tweak where he goes with a bit of where I want to go and then use cone and tyre obstacles to keep him interested by doing random fig 8’s and then P2P’s with sidepass over obstacle we ride to. He really got focused and ended up having a lovely ride together.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Bella: Rode to get back focus, straightness and flexibility. Worked on relaxation P2P’s first working on obstacles in corners of big field and then tweaked where\/how I was sitting to find our straightness. Once that was in place I used my weight cues and alternate feel in the stirrups to create bends and flexibility. Great session and so focussing \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A bit windy today but had a nice session of in-hand agility with Bella and liberty with Stormy \ud83d\ude42 Bella did a bit of liberty work but when she gets a wee bit further away from a good S2M she gets a wee bit worried and can’t figure out how to come back to me SO…am going to stick to helping her learn more online to keep her confidence and slowly we’ll do more with S2M close liberty work \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n
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Getting quite windy here so went down to the field to put the big straps onto the shelter and I also tidied up the agility area to make sure nothing is likely to blow away. Whilst doing this I had some fun with the tarp and the horses….’you’re never doing nothing with your horses’…so true \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n

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Had a lovely play session with Bella followed by a really nice ride. Calm, focussed and felt like we’ve actually started our training year now \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Today we hacked out a bit further in the lower fields near their main field. Got on at the start of ride this time, off to go through narrow gap by river but she sidled up perfectly for me to get on again from a broken dyke wall. Did quite a bit of walk\/trot in next big field and rode through narrow gap on the way back. She even gave me a really lovely, calm, controlled canter right at the end…perfect end to a perfect hack out \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Today I played with Bella (in-hand) and then Stormy (at liberty) through a new Agility course. It’s the same course I’m doing in my March Agility teaching clinic’s and it went down very well.<\/p>\n

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