JUNE 2010

10th June – Lesson with Terri – Worked on ridden and online impulsion and dealing with Bella’s Crabbiness and dominance when asked to trot. Will expand this later.

12th June - INTRODUCING PRINCE
Prince Is My mums new (1st !!!) horse. He is a 14.3hh 6 year old Black heavy weight Irish Cob Gelding. Will do a proper post on him later.

15th – Rode Dougal Bare Back in round pen – was amazed with how long it took him to relax. And stop. No I mean really STOP! It made me realize how long I was keeping my energy focused and not REALLY stopping when I asked him to stop.

19th – Rode Bella, she was really good, worked on clover leaf pattern walk and trot. Had to shut her down twice, she has learnt to try and bite my foot when I do it to try and out focus me! Cheeky pony!

20th – Lynne and Liqurish came over to play. We had another go at filming her L2 online.

21st – Claire Hollywell is back again for a while – confidence lesson on Dougal, walk only

232nd – Rode Bella in bareback pad for the 1st time. She was really good. 2nd lesson with Claire, she almost fell off when Dougal half fell over but didn’t! AND SHE STAYED ON!!! And continued walking! Sooooo proud of her ☺

23rd – Helped Clare with Dougal – made her be a little bit more ‘focused and not let Dougal out focus her and stop or wonder off the rail. I then rode Dougal barefoot(me not him)! Great for realizing how often my feet touch his sides, whether I mean them to or not!

24th - Claire rode Dougal in the lane!!!!!!! I did Figures of 8 on 45ft line with Bella, love watching her think her way through the puzzle and all the different things she tries. It took her 15 mins to finishing processing!! Wow


26th – Workshop at Terri’s – spectating

Yet again Terri provided an interesting and thought provoking workshop – as if there was ever any doubt! This one was lucky enough to be blessed with hot sunshine, which made a nice change from the rain, snow and cold winds of the winter ones. But enough about the weather, lets get to the important stuff – the horses!

Todays clinic was working around the concept of Level 2 freestyle: Impulsions and patterns - Level 2 patterns in the arena and larger areas, building go=whoa, carrot stick riding. The morning was spent mainly in the classroom and doing simulation, followed by an online session. The afternoon started again with a simulation, a little online to prepare the horses to be ridden ad the onto riding patterns


27th - Rode on the beach with Claire!!! ! Had an amazing ride on the beach with Bella, who was a star and is Soooo proud of Claire for riding Dougal on the beach.