Busy day here. My guests from Europe were given rakes and sent out into the paddocks, they look exhausted. It’s great to have the extra hands here for the spring clean up. The outdoor arenas were harrowed for the first time this year and all the horses were out enjoying the grass in the paddock for an hour now that they are dry enough for turnout. They can only go out for a very short time so that we don’t risk founder (laminitis). There is nothing like too much rich spring grass to cause fever of the feet. It’s a real problem in the UK where there are a lot of ponies who live out all the year round. Some of them wear muzzles for a part of each day to stop them gorging.
Selena and Woody are busy doing hills hills and hills. Hills and a dressage school, hills and a jump school and more hills. He will have to be fit enough to fly up and down those hills as though they are nothing and save all his real energy for jumping the big jumps…roll on Rolex, not long to go now. This weekend she and Woody are doing a Combined Training at Fairhill which is only about forty five minutes from Chesterland, just across the Maryland Pennsylvania border. I am now quite sure how we are getting Anne Marie to Rolex, she has to go down Monday at the latest. I may have to fly her down to Philadelphia on Thursday if we cannot find anyone driving down on Monday.
Anne Marie rode Rummy on the flat today. He did circles, turns and transitions and he was a super star. He is starting to get the idea of engagement and finding his balance in a little more of a frame as his hind end starts to come underneath him. As I keep saying, he is so very good tempered and definitely wants to please. He is thinking away as he trots around, concentrating on trying to do what Anne Marie is asking. Such a cool dude. Benny was lunged in the pessoa. He is a big strong boy and getting bigger. He has shot up behind again and needs to catch up with his withers before we do too much under saddle. After his 20 minutes of light lunging, he came back in, had a long drink then lay down to sleep for a couple of hours LOL
Rummy looking to see if it is his turn to get tacked up. He loves his attention time.
