1st May - Bluebell Ride

Today some of us Savvy Sussex Girls got together and when on a ride around the Bluebell Woods at Angmering Park. Bella was AMAZING and did me proud. Even having to contend with Giant Log Pile squeeze's, guns shooting, race horses, scouts hiking, sheep and a new place Bella was Cool calm collected Bella ... Well apart from walking backwards down a slope a few times, but we will ignore that for now ;), which is more than I can say for me!!! I lead her the first bit till I was more LB then hoped on and off as my confidence went up and down. Nothing to do with Bella, just my own hacking issues.

By the end of the ride I was laughing with everyone else, and taking pic’s of the woods and the rest of the group from on top off Bella as she walked along as a perfect partner.





In the afternoon I went out on a small hack on Hazel with Liz & Merlina. Merlina is just getting her confidence hacking so we went along to hold her hand so to speak. This was also my last ride on Hazel before she was sold, so a nice end to a nice day.

23rd April – Putting ideas into practice.

Today I worked on the things Rachael suggested yesterday. So we played on the ground till I could drive her forward, then ridden. All so far so good :)

22nd April - Had a great day at Rachael Morland’s clinic :) Oh, and Happy 5th Birthday Bella!

Today I went to watch a clinic Lower Sparr Farm, Wisborough Green with the always wonderful Rachael Morland 3* Parelli Instructor.
We where also lucky enough to have 2* Jody Ruysen helping out.
Rachael was kind enough to cover a 4 day clinic last minute for Carmen Zulauf (4* Parelli Senior Instructor) when volcanic ash made it impossible for her to fly.

As this was the last day of the clinic it was a lot of recapping more than teaching but that suited me for where I am at with Bella. The thing that where covered where: Sideways at a distance (up to 45ft) between two poles (for guidance for the human). Saddling, riding in arena and in the field.

I also got the chance to ask Rachael about a few problems I was having with Bella refusing to move forward. One thing Rachael recommended was getting her drive well in zone 3 so that I could tap her and have her move off without bucking, then take that to the ridden.

17th april - level 2 filmed. check. mums level one filmed. check. both loaded to youtube, double check!

We had ago at re filming my L2 and mums L1 today. They both went well but not 'perfect' so we are redoing them

8th april - Bella just offered sideways OVER the barrel! (twice!!!!) My little girl is so cool!!!! :)

What more can I add to that! We where just playing 'how many things can you do with a barrel?' and that was her idea! TWICE!!!

3rd april – Collected the new trailer today – pony will now be traveling in luxery!

2nd april - Filmed my level 2 today ... Not sure whether to send it or not as Bella was a bit of a Punk!!!

We did several takes over a few days but they all ended up on the cutting room floor! Still perfect practice and all that!

28th march – Today Bella offered to put both her feet on the pedistal!

27th March – Mum and Dougal level 1 clinic

Today I went with mum to her Level One clinic with Dougal. After a small mishap with Lynne getting her lorry stuck in the mud and Jon having to come and tow us out with the Landrover. We were off to Terri’s clinic. A great day was had and I was so proud of mum for how far she has come . Here are some pics as I think they say it all best! Dougal was of course a star as always ☺





When we got home we dropped Storm back to Janie as she is now ready to have him back.

19th March – Study group night

We met at Liz’s house tonight and started to watch a few horsanality sections from the LHB dvds. We also picked our next tasks – mine is click fingers to pick up feet.