Cantering for the first time on Danny

I know I need to put my heels down and sort my reins out... only had 5 lessons tho ;)

New best friend

Meet my new best friend, Danny.

We went out on a hack today through the Ceredigion countryside with me on Danny and Sophie on Lady.
They were both really well behaved and Danny was really good for me. He trotted across a field when I asked him to, even though I was a bit nervous of getting him to stop - but I managed to sit to his trot, which is completely different to the horse I ride at the riding school.

Teaching Daf to jump on the beach

We've been on the beach all afternoon teaching Daf how to jump!

We started working with him in October and he was pretty uncatchable and unhandlable so now he'd backed and jumping its awesome!

We started off walking him over a line in the sand, then a stick, a few stones etc and worked it up to this - he'd jumping really well now.

Not sure who's having more fun - him or me but thank god for my waterproof trousers.

Smurf the Unicorn

It's been challenging but I've been working with a Unicorn this week. He's been easy to catch and lead into his stable but has yet mastered flying but we have plenty of time to work on that.

 HEY SMURF

Lunge lessons with Lady

We've been back with Lady the Welsh D today and changed from long reigning to lunging.
It's been a learning curve for both Lady and me - neither of us have lunged before and I think we did pretty well!

She took quite a bit of encouragement to get her walking and it took me a few goes to get the timing ring without ending up halfway across the field but eventually we got the hang of it and she was starting to listen to me with walk, trot and stop.

Hey Daf