We arrived home yesterday to a temperature of less than 6 degrees and half an inch of hail on the ground. What is this? Winter already!!
I was booked to do E40 again tomorrow with Ace but I am not sorry to say that it has been cancelled due to lack of demand. The place is very exposed and the weather forecast is cold and showery.
Today I rode him up to my friend's and back down a couple of hours later. He waits happily enough in one of her stables with a borrowed rug on to keep his back warm.
He was spooky on the way up there, but only "electric shock" spooks, as my friend describes them so aptly. Just little jumpy twitches, no serious nonsense (though he would still scare a novice half to death!).
On the way back she rode part of the way with me, but Ace was very unsettled by being in company and I had to ask her to leave us. He was much quieter then than he had been on the way up, and really relaxed by the time we were home.
I hope I have some decent weather to begin with tomorrow. I want to practice a new and much more complex test before I can decide whether he is ready to do it in public.
C
Well, hail isn't quite snow....hope it melted quickly.
ReplyDeleteGood for Ace to go on a longish hack and be a happy boy. Interesting he does not like company. Proof he needs to be a dressage horse--the only one in the arena and the center of attention!
Have fun with the new test. I suspect Ace will only get better as things become more complex. It will make him concentrate on his work.
that's bizarre weather, we've had sun and wind and lovely this evening - i went to teesside, and back, sunny all the way, but someone said it had been raining just away from the route home, totally weird!
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