This blog is about me and my loan pony called Bow. What we get up too. And the events that i hope to start next summer.

Wednesday 31 December 2008

Hacking as usual xD

It's been ages since i've updated you on Bowie girlie. So, we've been on a lot of hacks these past few weeks. Went with Josie and Odo which was great fun - As i decided to let Josie lead the way on a different root xD Bow got a bit spooky for some strange reason, it might have been the fact we were somewhere different but i wish she would behave, especially when we almost landed straight into a deep ditch :O silly marey got spooked by something in the woods therefore dived to the right and was forced to stop in her tracks haha at least somebody was on the ball that day xD

Anyways slightly pissed off because i was hoping to go riding twice this weekend but silly marey decided to loose one of her shoes :( so no more riding for the week, but i've decided to pay her a visit on Saturday for a pamper haha x

Monday 15 December 2008

A little adventure :)

After another insident with the moody mare, we both went on a little adventure with Charlotte and her spooky horse, Jacob.

We wanted to explore different hacking roots around Hadham mill - not the brightest of ideas!

At first Jacob made sure that Charlotte couldn't get near to any of the gates; resulting in me jumping down from Bow to open it (Bow is suprising great at standing there by the gate, but then again she did have a pile of grass in her gob!) Anyhow, after a few squabbles between Bow and Jacob, again suprising they were well behaved.

Until we got to the cantering stage!

Bow being the carm, relaxed pony we decided to let her go behind Jacob (as he tends to get excited and spooky xD)

So typically Bow gallops off! Resulting in Jacob spooking, and a head to head battle to the finish line - the fence!

But nobody was harmed and we both decided to turn around for another go xD

Tuesday 9 December 2008

Jumping time.

As i so stupidly couldn't find the keys to unlock the gate, Bow and i were forced to ride around the field :( not exactly appropiate as Bow wasn't being her usual self - hyper! OMG what! Bow hyper <:O stand back in amasement :P

Well, i think it's all got to do with not being riden for a couple of weeks, and the fact that Sparkie was going completely crazy when we left him in the field on his lazz xD So, eventually; after battling with a very moody mare, we managed to start actually riding :O

The problem is that the field is just too muddy to canter :( but i braved it and decided to trot over a couple of cross poles xD and that was our jumping for the day haha not exactly pro-standard but we both enjoyed ourselves :)

But can you believe it! Bow acted like she just had a long work out xD silly mare.

Anyways, going for a long hack next week with Charlotte :) considering we didn't ride very much saturday xD

Wednesday 3 December 2008

:(

Well, at the moment my parents believe that i spend far to much time horse riding at the weekends! So, they decided that i can't go and see Bow on Sunday! I think it was totally unfair, especially since i don't exactly own her, therefore can only visit her once a week :( Therefore, there is unfortunately no update on the pritty mare and i just hope that she didn't miss me too much xD but on the plus side of things, i can see her on Saturday now :O I hope it'll snow, or at least doesn't rain! I'm getting a little bored of the typical english weather now :(

A day at the yard :)

I haven't had much of a chance to write anything on here for a while now; but lets get everyone updated!

Saturday was the only chance i could get to ride this week; and thankfully Josie gave me a lift to hadham mill xD we spend the entire day messing around and finding different ways to amuse ourselves with. First we decided to (along with Grace) have a treck up the river. It didn't go to plan - as i had very short wellies on xD and therefore got just a little bit wet xD and to add to the matter it was freezing - so we spent the rest of the day nice and warm in the tack room :P

But lets get to the riding aspect of the day.

Josie was very kind to let me and Grace have a ride on fatty :D but decided that we can only ride bareback :O - sense the danger here! As of cause i'm a bit of an idiot and almost fell of 5 times xD but other than that it was great fun - especially when i forced Grace to sit on the back, then made fatty canter xD poor fatty :P

Then, Claire let us exercise Hoshi :D i haven't riden the mare in a long while so we all had great fun. Plus Hoshi was excilent, jumping quite high considering she doesn't jump that often now :)

Overall it was an amusing day - can't wait for the next treacherous trech up river xD