mares, that is. The rest have ALL gone to stud...
So it's going to be a bit of a nightmare, really, i expect, as the other mare's owner always rides in the afternoon and i ride in the evening at the moment...
i expect he'll fetch molly in and i'll turn them both out... but up that hill it's not clever! ah well.
Today, we didn't do huge amounts time wise.... but what we did do was good, little bit of ground work to establish a basic, then i got on and she was nicely with me most of the time - a little bit iffy at first as she could hear a lawnmower and could see someone going out into other yard's field for horses... but then settled down nicely. finished with a few halts down the long side, all of which were done without setting the jaw etc... so i thought that was a good note to finish!
So it's going to be a bit of a nightmare, really, i expect, as the other mare's owner always rides in the afternoon and i ride in the evening at the moment...
i expect he'll fetch molly in and i'll turn them both out... but up that hill it's not clever! ah well.
Today, we didn't do huge amounts time wise.... but what we did do was good, little bit of ground work to establish a basic, then i got on and she was nicely with me most of the time - a little bit iffy at first as she could hear a lawnmower and could see someone going out into other yard's field for horses... but then settled down nicely. finished with a few halts down the long side, all of which were done without setting the jaw etc... so i thought that was a good note to finish!
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Oh no! I guess the problem isn't bringing them in and turning them out, but the hill is a real pain! Hopefully the rest of the girls won't be too long at stud.
I'd take a short session of good work over a longer session of less quality any day ;)
A good short ride is worth the effort. Molly still is a bit distracted by things outside the arena, though. Perhaps if you make a deliberate effort to simply ignore them yourself and keep all your focus on whatever exercise you are doing, it will help her focus too. Sometimes we can get our horses to listen to us instead of the rest of the world if we "create" the world we want them to be in in our own minds.
short but sweet, sounds great!
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