Very unmotivated to do any kind of dressage first thing in the morning but definitely perked up for some jumping! She’s got a much bigger canter than little Gemmy with her little pony legs, feels like a real horse stride with a real horse engine 😅
Poor thing had such a big weekend she fell asleep in the arena watching mum have a jump around (her first proper course no less!!) so on the way home we stopped at the reserve for a pick of the good grass and she rolled with her saddle on 🤷♀️🤦♀️ Feeling good I guess! 😂
She coped really well for being in a group of busybody mares, just need some more forward impulsion and we’ll be golden! That may come with less work on a Saturday though 😅🤞
Celebrated mum’s birthday this week with a trip out to Spencer Park/Seafield!
Both girls straight on the float with almost no hesitation, stood super nicely to get tacked up at the float as horses were coming and going from everywhere around, and Molly hacked on the buckle pretty much the whole way around an entirely new place for her! 🤩🙌
Plenty of sand tracks to do some trots and canters (mostly because Gem’s legs aren’t as long as Molly’s 😜) and even managed a very in control blat at the end! She would’ve loved to go longer (and faster!) but we were losing light quickly and both of them got pretty sweaty by the end of it 🤭 Only did about 5km or so but that’s because we got lost and couldn’t find our track and had to keep doubling back on ourselves 😅
Tomorrow is Molly’s first rally before we throw her in the deep end at our combined training in-house event in a fortnight! 😂
Couldn’t be more in love with this horse!! Dare I say she’s creeping up to share Ed’s special spot in my heart 😳🫣❤️❤️❤️
A balmy 17 degrees all day, sudden thunder and lightning storms in the afternoon complete with PELTING down hail for 20 minutes, then back to balmy 17 degrees again 🤷♀️🤦♀️
Poor Molly and Gem got soaked but there’s no point putting covers on a wet horse if it’s gonna get warm again!! 🤪
Another really nice ride on a really nice mare today 🥰
Molly was much more confident in the forest today, think she remembered how much fun she had last time 🤭 Only 6.8km today as we could hear a pack of motorbikes in the north corner and didn’t want to get too close but still managed some really nice trot/canter straights! A lot less jogging today too, had a real nice wahoo on the trot track and she came back straight away to mosey on the buckle (her moseying is quite a lot faster than Gem’s tho so miss Gemmy trotting up behind her as fast as her little legs can go got some jogging but only because she’d get plowed over if she didn’t go faster! 🤷♀️😂)
She’s still a little nervous on the road heading out but absolutely golden heading back, I think she doesn’t like seeing so many cars come towards her poor thing! She likes to stop and take a moment to look at everything which I’d take over bolting backwards any day 😂 Very very good girl today 🙌✨
Hopefully taking her out on the float Saturday for a hack at Bottle Lake 🤞 and first pony club rally on Sunday!! 🤩
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Started rugging Moo when it started to get cold after I got her, realised I was being a wuss and she’s come from 6 hours south where the temp barely gets above 15 degrees, and left her unrugged til now! She’s lost no weight and still maintaining condition, she’s nice and hairy, and still happy!
The only reason she’s been rugged tonight is because it’s way closer to 0 degrees than 10 🥶