if very hot, and very late - I rang G at 2, she said she'd be there at 3, turned up at almost 4.... but we decided if she'd said 7 it would have been better!!!
Anyway, the really good ride. I said, let's go to the riding school as we hadn't been that way for ages, and in the heat it's a good ride as it's mostly walking.
It involved setting off past the house and along the track; Molly went on ahead, had a couple of points where she thought about napping but listened to me and didn't, essentially she was in front - usually by a good way - virtually the entire ride. gaynor had to keep telling me to slow down, hadn't realised how far ahead of her I'd got! the only time gaynor got alongside was going up a stretch of road to the riding school yard itself, don't know why that was. So we were very pleased.
But i'd had to use some of the time before Gaynor arrived bathing a wound - one of the other mares, don't know which, keeps having a go, and today there was a sliced line down the near side back of her quarters that definitley needed bathing and stuff put on.
And she had to be washed off of course when we got back ..... it's now trying to rain, and we hope it succeeds!
oh, and i put my stirrups up a hole, seemed to help ....
Keeping My Fingers Crossed
8 years ago
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I'm going to start sponging sparky down on the usual sweaty areas before work to see if it helps him keep cool at all.
do it after you've worked him, otherwise you'll just have your tack getting wet and have that to deal with ....
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