I was along today for the first group lesson at the riding school with his new small rider. He bounced her off last wednesday at home, but he was an angel today. The instructor sensibly made sure the other riders gave them space, and he was incurably curious about everything, but he was also very sweet, and the instructor was clearly charmed ( Read more... )

I was at the stable yesterday because I was going to help Y with clipping Rowan. We couldn't get the clipper going right and at one point she was off for about 30 minutes getting a spare part. I sat down on a bucket in front of Ro and he stuck his nose against my neck and fell asnooze. It was deeply awwdorable. Sadly no photo as he didn't notice ( Read more... )

First he stood so well clipping, sometime last week. The clipper is huge and very noisy and used to worry him a bit, though he was never very difficult about it. This time he stood so calmly and I could even do the underside of his head ( Read more... )

This morning I was at the stable at 10 because the equine dentist was coming. Rowan didn't need any work, which was nice. It was very sunny (hurt-my-eyes sunny in fact) and though it was cold and windy too I enjoyed being outside for a while to lunge-work the powney. I rode bareback for about 10 minutes too - only to walk him out, but he was solid ( Read more... )

Another session with the trailer shy mare. Since she will be sedated for the actual move on tuesday, I decided I wasn't happy with putting her into a 1.5 horse trailer (which is fairly wide; in her case wide enough to turn around in). Horses 'surf' in wide trailers - they put their feet wide and use their balance to absorb the movement. Rowan is ( Read more... )

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I have no clue why the video looks square. Can't change it anymore. Hmm.

I finally stuck together a video about it...

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( My horse in his jammies )

On sunday I will be going to a Working Equitation competition with Rowan. During the dressage test you are allowed to have music to accompany you. It will be purely background music (not choreographed like in musical kurs) but I do want it to be suitable music ( Read more... )

My dad called me up if I fancied a ride. I had been having a very down day up till then and the opportunity to go cuddle Rowan was very welcome. It was nice that dad was there with me, there's some stuff that's just hard to do on your own, especially if you have trouble mounting
( lalablahblah wibble about horseriding )