Horse eating kerb stones.
Once I got Jumbo out of the yard, past the kerb stones that SH has just bought to do some work with, which made him spin like a whirling dervish, we had a lovely little hack. He even passed the team of three men shearing sheep, with another four doing foot trimmings and wormings and on the other side of the road, three barking Border Collies in a trailer. So he had to go between all that lot, which he did, for him, quite easily.
I did his toes on his front feet before we went out, and they look quite acceptable, especially for midsummer. He is doing well on his "in during the daytime" regime and isn't feeling stones like he did this time last year.
I also did the Oompaloompa's front toes. (Charlie excused him from the Chocolate Factory for a while :-) I took his heels back under his fetlock about a quarter of an inch, and the difference it made to the way his feet looked was amazing. The heels didn't really look long enough to shorten, but the wear wasn't at the end of his frog where it should have been. He was rockering his heel, which seemed to me to suggest that he was putting it down right, heel first, but that his foot was now ready to have the heel brought back to the end of the frog. I guess I was right, not only did they look very nicely balanced but he moved well on them too.
We went for the same hack, still feeling lucky if we got more than 6 strides all of the same length in a row, but he makes progress every time he's ridden. And of course he made so much less fuss about the sheep workings than Jazz did!
I have decided to rejoin my old riding club today - they have put a winter 09/10 program up which has elementary and medium dressage tests five times over the winter, mostly indoors. I'm not going to showjump. Jazz hates it and I don't ever want Radar to learn that fences knock down.
C.
posted by cptrayes @ 6:05 PM
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Took a full read to figure out who was who, but I got it!! *lol*
Feet done here too, but by my wonderful farrier. Chance is still barefoot and doing fine.
I doubt I would have gotten more than a few feet on Tucker during that ride. Toby, maybe a yard or two, but Chance probably would have made it, eventually. Clearly your Boys outshine mine in the hacking too.
The sheep would have definitely undone us all. Not sure where to find many sheep around here. However, my farrier does bring his border collie with him, so we are halfway there.
Sounds like a good day.
Oompaloompa really suits him, the great big sweet sticky chocolate bar!
I don't know if it was the sheep on their backs who were most upsetting, or the teams of Australians and New Zealanders who come here to shear them Jean. The sheep smell and have one brain cell that they share between the entire flock, you are well off without them! Good job lamb tastes so nice :-)))
C
After a few years once he gets his confidence up in himself maybe he'll be interested in jumpies. It might just be him not liking something he cannot control.. and he cannot control a fence, he has to get out of ITS way!
Ah yes, it was the jumpies at said riding club where you encountered the hateful obnoxious person when jumping with Jazz wasn't it?
Definitely best to avoid show jumping when it doesn't suit for either boy and is the least fun anyway. I am falling out of love with it myself. Never thought I would be saying that!
Well done Jazz on dealing with so many monsters while out hacking!
X
kerb stones are hateful beasts - they have huge teeth and can consume a horse in seconds! a horse has to whirl around a bit to confuse them *lol* - then it is safe to pass :-)
we have some huge stones at the top of the drive - but they are dragon eggs dontcha know :-) cue much snorting! but at least The Bugster will say "ok" when i say "walk on" - his version of napping is to stand for a couple of seconds, no death-defying rears complete with spins!
upside down sheep eh? not good! its not that the sheep are actually upside down - its just that their bit of the world has turned inside out so no self-respecting horse can possibly be expected to calmly walk past - after all, reversals of space and time are decidedly hazardous to ones health ;-)
agree with the one brain cell between the flock - and yes, lamb is VERY tasty!
Ah, so that was it Ann, is it the same with the foxgloves that aren't there one day and then suddenly appear where you haven't seen them before? That must mean that they have sprung up just to eat horses, mustn't it?
Yes Sarah, same club but I can avoid said stupid woman I hope. I've never liked showjumping - two minutes and you're finished. I only ever did it to event or to meet Riding Club friends, so I don't miss it one bit.
Jen you have his problem spot on. By the time Jazz gets to be happy with show jumping Radar will be the toppest notchest hunter that ever followed hounds, Jazz himself will be doing advanced or even higher dressage, and I don't think I'll care one bit whether he jumps or not :-)
C
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