an enjoyable ride out...

on a good lad

lynne and i had to persuade ourselves to ride out, but as is often the case, once we were out, enjoyed the ride.

her horse is a Friesian, and he and Monfils well matched in terms of walking ability! they can keep up with each other...

of course, Monf happy to lead along a track he wouldn't go into on saturday - it is a confidence thing

we did the harbour house ride again! must start going a new route.. - but with variations, in that we trotted up the hill to harbour house, Monfils had to give Luckas a lead past the scary conveyor (not moving) and harvester (also stationary and locked up for the night) and through the ford..

then trotted up beside blackdene, again in the lead, Lynne hadn't done that in trot before as thought it was too uneven with the tree roots etc, found it was fine..

Monfils was up for all this - in fact, given the opportunity, think he might have been up for a canter - but in fact he found he'd done a shade much when he got back, his feet were a shade ouchy after yesterdays trim.

so i reckon tomorrow he'll either get the day off again or go in the arena

also resolved a quesiton I'd had in my mind about girthing - someone actually checked the girth after i was on, and in fact the 24" is correct - done up to the top hole both sides.