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.

Improvements

Well Amy's leg has come right, yay! must've got nicked by the wire so we are now back in work and very happy with our small rest.

Had the vet to see taani today and she has a viral flu so now has some medicine. She was such a brave well behaved wee pony while being scoped, she just keeps making me proud.  

Taani is def one pony who just keeps getting better with age. :)

Now to get through xmas so we can get out and compete again!

sick pony and injured horse

It all started a couple of weeks ago, Taani got a small swelling on one of her tendons, she wasn't lame so i kept her on quiet gentle exercise and lots of bathing + cooling gel and it seems to have come right.  On sunday last week we went to have a ride and she now has a nasty cough! I gave her the week off but its still there whenever she does anything more than wondering around the paddock so i've called the vet in and he's hopefully coming out on wed.

Amy and i were supposed to be competing today but on thursday night i had to scratch due to her having developed some swelling on the lower part of her tendon on one of her front legs. :(

I have been bathing that and using the cooling gel also with some time off from riding, she's not lame at a walk so thankfully it doesn't look too serious.

I suspect she may have had a battle with the fence because the lower wire was broken when i went down on thursday night also. So Amy vs Fence = nil all.

Now can somebody please tell me why when you finally get your horse into full work they injure themselves and there goes all the hard work? and why do they pick right before xmas to get sick and need a vet?

Lol oh well i still luffs them :)

Te Marua ODE

I took Amy and Taani out to do the one day event on sunday, taani was entered HC in Intro (her first ODE/jumping show in over 6yrs) and Amy and i were doing our second Pre Training.

Amy did a pretty bad dressage, a bit tense and rushed with head in the air lol, so we were last after the dressage. Taani did a ok dressage, was a bit tense and gawky but i was proud of them both all the same.

We got clear in SJ for both of them, Amy was very speedy and well behaved, it helped that i was determined not to get any refusals at fillers from either of them and rode at the jumps like my life depended on it. Taani did a very quick SJ round and didn't really mind the jumps and only had two jumps from a stand still. Her first clear round about 9 years of living with me. (can you tell i'm proud of her lol)

There was a few "upsets" with the xcountry and the heat was starting to make me feel really sick when i went out with Amy, so i decided to scratch taani and quit while i was ahead. Me and Amy had a awesome xcountry she didn't even pause at any of the ditchy jumps, and i was a good mum and actually 'rode' her at all the jumps so she didn't even have time to think about backing out.

So Amy and i got 4th overall. Despite the day, it was a goody for my lil team of wannabee eventors :P