A frustrating weekend for me. Saturday was very windy - too windy for me to take the mad grey thing out hacking. Instead I borrowed YO's veteran and had a hack around with her (and even he had a couple of spooks. By 3:30 the wind had dropped a bit so I took Harvey in the school. He was a bit mad and kept spooking and running (I think the grass coming through is having an effect too). We ended up cantering round, and round, and round, and round until I was getting dizzy and still he didn't want to stop. I tried to do some jumping which will normally get him focussed but he was just running at the fences so I gave up.
On Sunday it was my third attempt to get to my first SJ clinic at 90cm. I knew the lorry battery was a bit flat so I had it on charge the previous day, but it was completely dead. I tried to jump start it off the car which I have done many times before but that didn't work either so another clinic cancelled
The mechanic is going to come and look at it and fit a battery isolator but I haven't got a date yet so no more going out and about for me at the moment. It was too windy to hack again so I hijacked the yard veteran again to cheer myself up.
In the late afternoon I had a lesson at home and to my surprise Harvey decided to play nicely. We are still concentrating on working on my steering and rhythm.
Sorry that all my piccies look the same - they are different ones honestly!
Saturday's mad session!
Sunday at 90cm
Hacking
1 hour 20
4 miles
Schooling
1 hour
Totals
Schooling
7 hours 10
Hacking
51.2 miles
15 hours 20