Wednesday was really fun and busy. Great to finally start the games! We did our usual team jog @ 8:00 a.m., no rain. 🙂 Then I lunged Woody, nice for him to stretch without my weight or pressure. I learned that a shambon is legal. Who knew?I lunged in side reins. Peter had a lesson then we […]
Well it’s rained…A LOT! There was a little sun while the Canadian team trained today with Clayton. 🙂 Team jog at 8:00 a.m. was horribly soggy. 🙁 There was a 9:15 a.m. last warm up area ring familiarization for 20 minutes today. There’s another tomorrow including the main arena 15 mins in each ring. So […]
Was a very busy day! I hacked and did a little flat with the Woodster. He felt really good after his gallop the day before. Not tired or stiff, just happy. 🙂 I packed up all my stuff and AM packed all Woody’s gear. The vet came to finalize the horses’ papers around 5:00 p.m. […]
The morning was fairly uneventful. Had a team meeting about logistics for tomorrow’s trip to France. 🙂 In the afternoon, we shipped the horses 30 minutes down the road to Bradbury Castle for a gallop on all-weather terrain. Was four furlongs uphill. Racehorses use it. Jessica and Peter went first, then Hawley and I went. […]
Today we started a little earlier so we could get away on time for show jumping at Rectory farm. What a great venue – super footing and lovely colored jumps. Course was all set we just had to raise it to scary height. 😉 Jessica and Peter went first, then Hawley and I. Everyone’s horses […]
Going to keep this as short as possible because it’s very late and I have an early start. Today was EXHAUSTING! I had a nice hack on Woody and worked a little on some of the tips Annabelle had given me the day before. Then I set fences for Jessica while she jumped Pavarotti. He […]
Today was excellent! This am I went for a hack on those beautiful hills. There are 250 acres at Maizey Manor in total. Then I did some raised trot poles on the edge of the ring in a corner (so quite a steep bend) Woody didn’t touch one! I watched Gin & Juice jump beautifully. Then […]
It was another fun filled day, with an 8:00 a.m. jog to start us off. Breakfast was excellent because I picked up some crumpets and rhubarb jam, my favourite. I took Woody for a nice hack to stretch him out before some “massage dressage.” I was super happy with how good he felt after his […]
Busy day today. Did our 8:00 a.m. jog then a quick team meeting to arrange the day. I did flatwork with Clayton then took Woody out to gallop. There’s a fantastic three-minute uphill gallop at Maizey Manor. We did three trips up it with Clayton on the four wheeler. He had his GPS running on […]
Today we actually got to ride the ponies. Hurray! So we started the day with an 8:00 a.m. jog. Was great to see Christiana and baby Luca:) Then we all had a private lesson (light flatwork) and a hack. Woody was a little bit distracted, but he did nail all his halts AND both changes first […]
