Have had a great day with the ponies and the kids today, Hollie and Polo came to
join us and we've been doing some practising.
Started off with a
practise of the HT youngsters challenge (full details here), they soon realised that the egg and
spoon bit isn't as easy as it looks, neither is one handed riding!
Some more work to be done there.......
Then we moved on to polework, and
transitions, gave them something else to think about......
and we finished up the morning session with a bit of jumping the scarey black
plastic draped over the pole!
Neither of them was too keen on this at the
start, here's some video:
After lunch we went for a little hack, guess who had to walk? Yep, that'd be me
as the SNO insisted on riding too......
Sky was full of beans and danced about a bit, especially when the other two went
off for a hooley, and the SNO thought this was all great fun! She even did a big spook when the others came back.......and Éowyn laughed. And
told her off........
Had never heard of this before....until the other day when Isabelle at the Beaumont riding school told me there was a competition next month and asked if we were interested.....
Basically it's a series of tests to see how good you and your horse would be at things you'd encounter out and about. Bit like the "parcours de terrain varié" bit of Trec. So I have got hold of the handbook and thought we'd have a go at some of the stuff.
There's loads of tests you may get, like loading and unloading, standing still to be mounted from either side, going through water, gate opening, going round cones, reversing, going past flags, umbrellas, animals, building sites, over bridges, under hanging stuff etc etc.
Here's a little video of the stuff we've done so far, didn't think Ganders would be too bothered, and he wasn't.....
More to follow.......and we'll be doing some with Chester, he's coming along too!
