Wednesday 17th December

Today my new camera arrived so I got some lovely photos of the ponies!!

So today with Smarty we played friendly game with the CS and also played with just tossing the rope over his head and back. We then played with yo yo game and h was really good today and gave me some really nice backwards at a low phase. We then moved on to sideways and today I tried without a fence he was going sideways but there was still a lot of forward movement and I felt I was having to make to many corrections so we went back to playing at the fence.

Trailer loading was brilliant today and he loaded straight in first time!!



So I decided seen as he had managed the trailer loading so well, I would try him with the pedestal today.



After playing for around 15 minutes with lots of approach and retreat



We then played with circling over a jump and he had loads of energy and seemed to really enjoy this! We finished with loading into the trailer from trot!! Hopefully the video will work!!



Today with Blossom I decided to try and work on her confidence in zone 5 - we played with backwards over a pole, backwards towards the wall, backwards to a jump, and backwards towards with trailer ramp. She was really good, we did do lots of approach and retreat but not nearly as much as I thought we would have had to do.



We then played with sideways and Eddy commented how well she is doing and that I should start asking her to trot sideways..

So I will maybe give that a try in the next few days. We then finished on that as I wanted to do ET session on Smarty and as the arena was busy today so I didn’t think it was the best time to try and ride her. Smarty’s ET session went well, he had a few sore spots but nothing too bad and seemed to really enjoy his session.