Tuesday 6th January

Well as it has been so cold here the last couple of weeks, the diesel in the tractor has frozen and we can’t seem to un - freeze it, which is a bit of a pain as we use it to drag the arena. It has now been about a week since the arena was done and it is now really deep and hard for the ponies to work on.

So to try and avoid any injury or anything I decided to just take it easy with Blossom today. We played with:

1. Getting backwards faster
2. Getting her to draw to me at trot
3. Getting sideways really soft and her connected to my energy
4. Sideways over a pole
5. We tried sideways over a block, but she isn’t quite ready for this yet
6. Backwards over a pole

I then saddled and started with follow the rail at walk and I was getting her to come back to stand with just my energy and then backing up using my feet. We then played with the bow tie pattern in walk to get her used to the pattern in preparation for out canter leads. Lastly we played with sideways, I haven’t done this is quite a while and it really showed so I need to try and play with this every time I ride to really get her good and soft at this.

Today Corine and Sophie were going out a walk with there horses, so I decided to take Smarty along with them. But I was going to ride as I am to lazy to walk - but it turned out I did have to walk half the way as Smarty was feeling his feet on the stones on the track and I felt bad riding him if he was sore so thought I should walk.



View from on our Trail.



Me and Smarty.