NEW HORSEY!!!

Introducing Wynyard Irish Kriss (aka Violet)

Well i'm now the very proud owner of one stunning mare who i hope i don't embarrass too often.

Had my trial ride today and pick up tomorrow, that will be 4 mares in my paddock!

My riding skills need some obvious tidying up and my booty needs some more fat but otherwise it all looks promising. :D

Update

Well nothing too exciting happening here, back to work tomorrow :(

Amy demolished her rug on friday, so had to go rug hunting on saturday, man that girl really knows how to spend my money!

She is also lame and has a small indent/swelling at the base of her neck, so think she may have pulled a muscle. Entry's for our next show close in a couple of days so will have to miss that too. 

Blondie was taken to Battle Hill today. He's going to spend the week there playing stock/pony club pony for norms granddaughter. Hehehe.

Taani is doing really well and the only one available to be ridden atm, so have decided since i cant take Amy to upper valley on the 24th i'll take Taani on a CTR ride on the 25th. So should be fun!

Blondie's new little riders

Over christmas mum has decided to start giving Ngarangi and Terina (her foster girls) more riding so we can get them out to some sports day over the end of this season.

They have had two rides and they have the best little positions, they can turn, stop, mount (from a mounting block), get their stirrups back when their foot drops, and pull his head up when he thinks about eating; all without being on a lead. It helps that blondie is happy to plod around the paddock and follow the leader. 

Today both girls managed some little trots on the lead and holding onto the saddle. Every ride they have to help groom and tack up. Mum and i are just amazed at how well they're doing and how sure of themselves they are. Already they boss each other and mum around, telling how it should be done and taking charge at every opportunity!

Here are some pics of today. (sorry about the poor quality they were taken on my cell phone.

                                        

                  

Terina                        Ngarangi

Kyrewood

On boxing day we loaded up Amy and headed to Perfs for our trip to kyrewood for the weekend. Amy loaded really well on the float and truck and apart from skinning her nose a little on the trip up travelled really well with her brand new friend Neo and was a absolute angel all weekend, when yarded, tied to the truck, and when standing waiting for her turn in the ring.

We did some classes in the pleasure horse section on the saturday, in between riding Perfs Grace in the other classes. Amy and i dont normally do flat classes due to Amy just getting too tense and upset with other horses crowding and overtaking her.  This weekend though she was a little star and listened the whole time, not even fazed once by the other horses. We picked up a third in the rider classes (out of 3 hehe) and although we didnt pick up any placings i was super proud and happy to give it a go again, since Amy's behavior was awesome.

              

On the Sunday we did three ring 3 classes, 60, 70 and 80cm. It was our first time in a ring with white wings on the jumps and flowers etc round the ring and a decent amount of fillers, so i was very impressed that Amy didn't look twice at any of it!

In the 60cm she was a bit lazy and knocked a rail and she was fighting me quite a lot. The 70cm we had a clear round, but were not quite fast enough for a placing (although we wont tell Amy that!). And in the 80cm class we went clear in the first round but knocked a rail in the jump off (because i sort of threw her at the jump -- bad mummy).

         

So i was happy with how my weekend went both on Amy and Grace (who was a sweetie and was not fazed at all by the pretty rings and goings on - go Grace). Although looking at the pics i definitely need to improve my position especially my lower leg *sigh*.

Back to normal

Well just a quick update, Taani's leg went down within a couple of days, and her cough/cold seems to have disappeared yay!

The last couple of days we have gotten back into things; riding both, keeping Amy fit and working on removing the belly that has appeared on Taani.

This weekend is off to Kyrewood with Kerri yay. More helping and prob riding one from her gang in the pleasure classes, also got Amy entered in the pleasure classes and ring 3 jumping then off for some xcountry practice on the monday.

So a busy start to christmas, but should be fun! :)

Not again!

Well Taani's recent attempt at getting out of any kind of work has resulted in the pics above.

I'm not a happy mum, but grateful that amy's fine at least.

There are no new marks on her legs and they didn't go down after a good 10 mins in the river, so will rest her and if no improvement will let the vet know when i make the call about her cold recovery on friday.  

Taani update

Taani has now finished her medicine for her cold (1/2 a day early). I have already seen an improvement and managed a short ride today with only 1 cough, so am very happy with how she's improving so far.

Now we have to have a 5 day period off the meds then call the vets to let them know how she's getting on.

In the meantime (only a few weeks!) Taani has managed to grow a enormous  belly, there goes all our hard work out the window, cant wait to work it off and have my pony looking sort of like a arab again.