WhiteIceGem
25th Nov 2003, 05:24 PM
I ride a 14.2hh 23 y/o arab/welsh mare (called Baby, irionic i know!) at the weekends. she was retired 2 years ago due to her having a stiff shoulder. 6 months ago i started hacking her out again, as a companion for my friend and her horse, and so far so good, no lameness and she loves going out. We've stared doing a bit of work in the sand school now but she hates it!!! Doesn't do anything silly like rear up, buck or spook at stuff, but she gets a bit nappy as she gets bored very quickly.
We do most stuff at walk as shes not very fit and she's never been schooled properly, so i'm taking it slowly, doing lots of halt/walk transitions, circles etc, and usually we finish the session with a bit of a trot large around the arena. Also she isn't shod, but she has good feet. I'm running out of ideas though and i could do with some suggestions!
Our local riding club does unaffilliated dressage competitions and they have a no canter test wheich i'm aiming to do with her on the 4th january. I know it'll be no where near perfect, but its just to break the ice and get her (and me!) used to the whole "going out" scenario.
i only have the oppertunity to ride her saturday and sundays, so we have limited time! Also she is overweight, literally like a barrel, she looks like she's preggers!, so any thoughts/ideas on weight losss would be useful. She is on 24hr turnout, and only has hay with a token handul of hard feed when the others have theirs.
I need training ideas!!
Liz and Baby
We do most stuff at walk as shes not very fit and she's never been schooled properly, so i'm taking it slowly, doing lots of halt/walk transitions, circles etc, and usually we finish the session with a bit of a trot large around the arena. Also she isn't shod, but she has good feet. I'm running out of ideas though and i could do with some suggestions!
Our local riding club does unaffilliated dressage competitions and they have a no canter test wheich i'm aiming to do with her on the 4th january. I know it'll be no where near perfect, but its just to break the ice and get her (and me!) used to the whole "going out" scenario.
i only have the oppertunity to ride her saturday and sundays, so we have limited time! Also she is overweight, literally like a barrel, she looks like she's preggers!, so any thoughts/ideas on weight losss would be useful. She is on 24hr turnout, and only has hay with a token handul of hard feed when the others have theirs.
I need training ideas!!
Liz and Baby