Well lets start with my handsome beast. :p As mentioned last time he went to his first horse show!!! I was super excited to see how he was going to deal with all of the confusion yet a bit nervous to find out wether or not he was going to flash back to his racehorse days! Pleasently supprised he was and absolute CHAMP! He hopped on and off the trailer, alittle concerned why the blue box with wheels had brought him to a new place, but hey this new place had FRIENDSSSS! Into our first class we went and he really was better behaved than he is at home! He handled cantering in a group well (one of my "racehorse flashback" concerns) and jumped around his courses perfectly! With out further explination you can watch it for yourself! This is the video of Simon's first show!
As for the Princess pony, sadly she has returned to lollypop until further space is found in our barn! Our barn owner puchased a pony for her daugther for christmas and has truly maxed out on space. (Like so maxed out we had to build the pony a stall!) Even though we are very sad we had to send her back during he holidays it was the best as she wouldn't have gotten much work anyways. Before she left we had her saddle broke and she had close to 5 rides undersaddle! Truly nothing much fazed this little mare. We began teaching her the concept of moving off our leg and just before she left, steering with a bit in her mouth. Sad to see the little pony go hopefully we can have her back for more training. (provided she isn't adopted. Which would be a good thing.... other than we want her back again :p)
Here are the links to the video's I have made on her progress:
Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and are looking forward to the new year! Let me know of all the horsey gear you got over christmas below and your 2013 goals! I hope to make a blog on my goals for Simon in the next few days! Until then happy riding in the snow! :)
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