Have been having some issues with Kinna recently, serious temper tantrums at not being allowed to graze. Saturday's protest of choice was rearing, we took her to the field over the road to try and do a bit of ridden work and she really threw her toys out when prevented from eating. Ali sat tight and clutched the grab handle and when she'd finished, guess what, she STILL wasn't allowed to eat.....
Got Ali off and did some groundwork, Kinns is definitely not bothered by Chox (who thinks it's a great game), she explodes every time I ask her to more forward and stop her eating. She got it a bit wrong at one point....!!
Times like this I wish had a sand school...
That's what you get for having no winter grazing I guess, she hasn't got enough space to hooley on the mud in our "field" and a hay only diet makes her want grass all the time. Can't blame her really......Anyway, fair play to Ali, she got back on and we went for a hack afterwards and she was far more reasonable.....
Turns out Saturday was a bit of a workout for Ali, she had her riding lesson on Chester in the afternoon, who it appears is not so keen on being a riding school pony and pulled out his party piece to see if that'd get him out of it, and when it didn't he tried refusing to jump instead. At the ripe old age of 8, he should know better, but ponies never really grow up, do they?
Well the girlies sure were full of beans today.......
Got Sky out for a
bit of long lining and lunge work, she wasn't really paying attention, mainly
becasue it was the first time she'd been up to the carriere in my friend
Marianne's field and there were lots of potentially scary things to check out.
We just walked about at first, until she'd stopped snorting at everything, then
I asked for a bit of trot. That didn't go so well.........
So I took her to the round pen so she could let off steam instead......
Got some nice pics at least today, no real work done though.......
Then when I took her back down to Kinns in the field, they had a fine old time
Meanwhile, the sensible older horse (!) was doing some work too, Ali wanted to work on her turns and transitions for jumping. Fina tends to rush
a lot and sometimes has missed a jump because of her speed.........
So we
practised trotting and cantering over poles on the ground in a serpentine and
did a few other exercises like that from one of Ali's horse magazines, then we
practised transitions, got a bit of vid of that
After that, Mike turned up and ran home with Ali and Fina so she's here ready
for another CSO tomorrow. She was a bit anxious about being on her own, but is
much happier when there's someone on the ground with her. Hopefully we can get
another clear round tomorrow.......and there's no rain forecast for once!
Got a couple of nice pics of Fina too.....
.....and so she's not left out, here's one of Kinns :-)
The boys had energy to spare this morning, I put them in the small paddock to keep the grass down and off they went, haring round and being silly!
Choccy thought all this was great fun, here's a little video
We went for a hack this afternoon and every time we even thought about haing a little canter they got very excited, Maverick kept bucking, even Gandalf put in a little one! Think they need more exercise........
