2022 Hacking and Riding

[horseandgoatmom]

Woo hoo I just got in from riding....
IN THE EVENING.... I NEVER RIDE IN THE EVENING
It was great so quiet and peaceful..I watched the sunset from SONNY BACK

2 nosebands I ordered arrived today and I wanted to try them.

One has knots one doesn't.
He was super light in both.

The orange one I ordered for that bridle
The other one is a patriotic flag pattern .
It didn't really go w that other bridle.
It needs something leaning red.

We played with the ball

 

[Trewsers]

Woo hoo I just got in from riding....
IN THE EVENING.... I NEVER RIDE IN THE EVENING
It was great so quiet and peaceful..I watched the sunset from SONNY BACK

2 nosebands I ordered arrived today and I wanted to try them.

One has knots one doesn't.
He was super light in both.

The orange one I ordered for that bridle
The other one is a patriotic flag pattern .
It didn't really go w that other bridle.
It needs something leaning red.

We played with the ball
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Fabulous!! It’s great getting a ride in late afternoon.

 

[horseandgoatmom]

I'm SOOOOOO THRILLED I didn't him and haw. Should I shouldn't I. Yes no ...

I just said to myself it's nice out and I REALLY want to try those nosebands.

I'm soooo not an evening person being up so damn early..not by choice..I always have been.

I felt rejuvenated when I came in.

I really need to do that more.

 

[Trewsers]

I'm SOOOOOO THRILLED I didn't him and haw. Should I shouldn't I. Yes no ...

I just said to myself it's nice out and I REALLY want to try those nosebands.

I'm soooo not an evening person being up so damn early..not by choice..I always have been.

I felt rejuvenated when I came in.

I really need to do that more.

I think it gives you energy sometimes!

 

[Huggy]

Gets the endorphins going or something

 

[Trewsers]

Gets the endorphins going or something

Definitely. I used to turn up at the yard we were on knackered from work and the suddenly - poof! I'd have a ride and come home full of beans! Worked most nights.

 

[Doodle92]

I always ride in the afternoon and I feel all knocked out of line of earlier. I think ot seems from I like getting mucked out and jobs done first and leaving stable ready to be left in after riding.

 

[Skib]

Woo hoo I just got in from riding....

Woo hoo, me too. I went to the yard prepared to tell them I was giving up riding - too old too stiff and too tired. But the opposite happened and it was heaven.
They sent me out all on my own, on a granny ride wandering with Ella and to my favourite tree viewpoint from where I can survey the Parkland in the manner of Tolstoy. Tolstoy has always been my role model for riding in old age but OH has just pointed out that I am now older than Tolstoy was when he died.
The effect on Ella was beautiful too. She has seemed stiff and quite strong and needing a hefty kick since my fall in January, but today she gradually softened and I could think her into trot and she reminded me of how Maisie (old favourite ) was- as if I had been riding Ella this way for years and got to the point where we are quite at home with each other.

 

[Doodle92]

I cancelled my lesson. I thought taking him in the school was the last thing he needs right now. I'm glad I did, it is peeing down now. I said I would still pay for lesson but instructor said no. She will still come and teach s tho as it is the first be of the season on Sunday and she is hard core!!

 

[GaryB]

A quite weekend for me. I hacked on Friday and Saturday first with S and then with A. On Sunday we played in the school - L had set up a jumping exercise so Harvey and I had a play. It was basically a 20m circle of small (45cm) jumps but the centre one was a bit close so it was a tighter turn. Harvey has the turning circle of a cruise liners so we had to work hard

Playing in the school 1

Playing in the school 2

Hacking
2 hours
8 miles

Schooling
30 minutes


Totals

Schooling
7 hours 20

Hacking
129.5 miles
36 hours 45

 

[Huggy]

FINALLY! All moved in, it wasn't raining and after 2 WEEKS (!) I took Hogan out. It was however blowing a gale, but I had to remind myself that the wind really doesn't bother Hogan. We didn't do anything special - just pootled, but it was lovely. Considering he'd had 2 weeks off, there were gale force winds and there was a forest pony yelling for her friends frantically, he was a gent. Roll on spring!

 

[Trewsers]

FINALLY! All moved in, it wasn't raining and after 2 WEEKS (!) I took Hogan out. It was however blowing a gale, but I had to remind myself that the wind really doesn't bother Hogan. We didn't do anything special - just pootled, but it was lovely. Considering he'd had 2 weeks off, there were gale force winds and there was a forest pony yelling for her friends frantically, he was a gent. Roll on spring!View attachment 111189View attachment 111190

Yaye! Nowt wrong with pootling! Glad you had a good ride. Bet it's so nice to be moved in as well.

 

[Skib]

Just been out for a walk and took an old Dutch kite with us which we flew - but so blustery it kept diving to the ground. I was glad not to be riding.

 

[Huggy]

Yaye! Nowt wrong with pootling! Glad you had a good ride. Bet it's so nice to be moved in as well.

It really is. It almost feels more like home than the last one! So quiet too, even though we have a pub about 200 yards away.(we're going there on Saturday- dog friendly, so Alfie can come too).

 

[Huggy]

Can't believe how much I'm enjoying getting out riding again - felt much longer than 2 weeks since I last went. Absolutely glorious morning, but so cold. There was a heavy frost for this time of year, clear to see in pic below, when I went to get him in. There was a show in the big yard across the lane, and credit to Hogan, lots of lorries and shouty horses didn't wind him up at all. We had a nice relaxed ride (not as much of a meander as our last one!) I caught sight of our shadow and couldn't resist a pic of the HUGE horse with a HUGE tummy and the teeny tiny rider.

 

[Huggy]

Another lovely morning and a bit warmer. Hogan was really good - nice and forward, and behaved well when we stopped to chat a couple of times. Again, it was very windy, but he was fine.

 

[Jane&Ziggy]

Lovely hack on my own this morning. I had Super Chilled Sid today instead of Turbo Sid as in my jumping lesson! We stopped to let a little little child, just about able to walk, speak to him and pat his nose, and he was a complete gent as always. Popped a little log and he was fine with a short canter afterwards. The canter was slow and smooth, so smooth I actually had to count the hoofbeats to be sure we were cantering! Just a poppet.

 

[Huggy]

Very warm this morning, only my 2nd ride without a jacket. Hogan was a bit of a pain to start (so slow!) but woke up after a frustrating 15 minutes or so. We got lots of trotting in, after a reluctant start, which was lucky, as the world and his wife were out this morning. Met OH and he took a pic - terrible - my hands are up, my shoulders are up and my stirrups not level! My stirrups always are unlevel until we've had a trot, then they settle evenly. Doesn't matter what I do, it's the same every ride. They're the same length, believe it or not!

 

[horseandgoatmom]

He is such a cutie.

The stirrups may be a bit of an
Optical illusion.

 

[GaryB]

Another lazy weekend riding wise, but not so much horsey wise.

YO has entered the young horse class at the Wales and West show so we had a yard outing to support her. The downside was that her time was 8:44 so we had to leave the yard at 6:30. It was a fun morning with 6 of us going and the early start got us back in time to ride. I went hacking with K in the afternoon as she hasn't learned the hacking yet. We discovered that the surface on our local short was the best I have ever known it - you can normally only canter 50m before getting to a boggy or rutted patch but we were able to canter for ages.

Saturday was another early start (for me who normally gets up at 8!). I was grooming for L who was in the second round of British Novice SJ. We had to leave at 8:30 as it was a 90 minute drive. We had a nice time although L was unlucky to have a pole down in the first round. I hacked on my own in the afternoon, and as the bridleway was good for cantering Harvey and I had to go and play.

Sunday was a lie in!! I hacked with L and (guess what) we went and took advantage of the good surface for a canter)

Saturday's venue (Tushingham) - waiting to walk the course.

Hacking
3 hours
4 miles

Totals

Schooling
7 hours 20

Hacking
133.5 miles
38 hours 45