My friend Martina is very ill and in hospital at the moment so I am having to look after her horses. How ironic as it was only a few weeks ago that I got kicked by her 'little darling' and had to say that I would be unable to help with any handling of her and now……sole charge!!!! Yikes!!! Jelly and I are doing some gentle work on ‘how to be nice grown up horse’ which is coming along nicely and I even managed to lead her through an entire paddock with getting kicked, front footed or bitten. Woohoo!!!!!
Bad Jelly and her mum
Bad Jelly
Brina is very limpy at the moment :-(. I ran out of glucosamine and since she has been so sound I really didn’t rush out and instantly buy some more and now she won’t come sound again. It looks like we will be off to see Uncle Vet. And Spyke is having visit from the equine physio next week as he is not 100% happy at the moment. We had our final dressage day of the series yesterday and he was awful!!! He was all hollow and was throwing his head around and just hated being asked to collect. I did my second test on a long rein (which got me slammed by the judge) but he was completely happy so I will get him checked out.
Spyke looking shiny and clean
Brina 'helping' Spyke with his dinner
The girls had a photo shoot last weekend. A friend of a friend wants ot get into pet photography and needed some practice so we took the girls up to the forest and took lots and LOTS of photos. It was such fun (at least Brina and I thought so). Sammie hated it, she hated the camera and REFUSED to put her ears forward for ANY reason. Whereas Brina would bounce into focus with ‘Pick me! Pick me! This is my good side……no wait….this is too” She was soooo funny.
Last night (Wednesday) Kristina and I went for an evening ride in the forest. It was sooo lovely!! We had to make it all a bit 'snappy' as we didn't have a LOT of time after work but the boys were just fabulous and I so enjoy riding with Kristina and Oscar. Next time we should have Sarah and Bert along too as she is moving her boys back west and.....in with my two. The new tenant wants four geldings in together and I have to say I was not very keen on strange horses in with my two so I contacted Sarah and she is really really keen and moves in a week on Saturday...Yay!!!! Sarah and her boys are lovely.
In the weekend Tina and I took young Biscuit off to Abderry for her to begin her formal education. It's quite exciting really, I can't wait for her to come back in a couple of months all trained and ready to go to the forest.
Biscuit about to head off to boarding school
I think that is all my news. Oh except that Spyke did actually get third in one of his tests at the last dressage day. :-) He is a luffly, luffly boy!!!!!
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