Thursday, July 31, 2008

first ride out

from the new yard, and Molly barely put a foot wrong. She only had one blip - that was when a van was coming down a track from our right that she couldn't see but could hear, and when it appeared it was loaded with hay - rather think she wanted to follow the hay!

we went a good bit further than original plan, but one bridleway has definitely been made inaccessible (we're complaining again! - people don't want flytippers & motorbikes on rainton meadows, fair enough, but we want to ride on bridleways!) and then the last part she led, along a narrow boggy track becoming overgrown now

as we leave and come back to the yard, we have to go through traffic lights for the water board's road works, good as gold with all of that

very pleased indeed, and her brain will be refreshed as well.

and we'd no sooner led the horses into the barn than it started raining, so we timed that perfectly (we'd thought we were going to get wet at one point!)

was sorry to hear that one of the horses at my previous yard had to be PTS recently - fractured shoulder, I am told, very old horse. very sad.

3 comments:

cptrayes said...

Sounds like a great start.

C

Jean said...

Good. Maybe the psychological blockade about hacking is breaking up with the new environment.

Sad about the injured horse.

Nicola said...

thats good news..maybe the change of scenery has helped,familiarity breeds contempt &all that :-):)
Polo spooks more when he's in a familiar place take him somewhere new and he's quite brave.
Very sad to hear about Queenie but your doing the right thing for her would be horrible to think one day over the winter she couldnt get up and had been lying for hours in the cold.