I can't believe how much Peds has changed in this last year 
My friend and I hired a local RS indoor school last night after work. We arrived and unloaded in darkness while there were fireworks banging in the distance! Peds glanced in the direction of the noise then got down to serious business..... Eating grass while I tacked up!
The fireworks were still going off when we went into the school and he didn't even seem to notice them (my friends mare was a little unsettled but she settled when they stopped which was pretty quickly)
He then was so relaxed and listening for our warm up and in our 'work' (practicing transitions in halt, walk and trot without his head coming up)
The school was lovely and big so we ended with some canter work. Totally messy and horrible transitions but we got some good ones at the end and it has to start somewhere I feel so positive about his schooling and unbelievably proud that it's me that's got us to where we are now. It may have taken 4 years to get to this point, and I'm sure it would have been much quicker and we would be further on if I'd done as some people in my life suggested and sent him away to be schooled, but I wouldn't feel this sense of achievement and wouldn't know my pony as well as if I had. (Nothing against sending ponies away for schooling, I know it works for some people)
We're going for a relaxed hack today and then the competition on Sunday (an early start as I'm on at 9.18am!)
My friend and I hired a local RS indoor school last night after work. We arrived and unloaded in darkness while there were fireworks banging in the distance! Peds glanced in the direction of the noise then got down to serious business..... Eating grass while I tacked up!
The fireworks were still going off when we went into the school and he didn't even seem to notice them (my friends mare was a little unsettled but she settled when they stopped which was pretty quickly)
He then was so relaxed and listening for our warm up and in our 'work' (practicing transitions in halt, walk and trot without his head coming up)
The school was lovely and big so we ended with some canter work. Totally messy and horrible transitions but we got some good ones at the end and it has to start somewhere
I feel so positive about his schooling and unbelievably proud that it's me that's got us to where we are now. It may have taken 4 years to get to this point, and I'm sure it would have been much quicker and we would be further on if I'd done as some people in my life suggested and sent him away to be schooled, but I wouldn't feel this sense of achievement and wouldn't know my pony as well as if I had. (Nothing against sending ponies away for schooling, I know it works for some people)We're going for a relaxed hack today and then the competition on Sunday (an early start as I'm on at 9.18am!)
