Thursday was a washout (not literally, but the RA attacked my left hand!) and friday was an improvement pain wise but i just tried some lunging (at least he'll go round in walk, even though i can't get a faster pace out of him).
but riding on saturday.
I don't know what to think. Have i wasted £1500 on new saddle, or is there something else going on?
get on, he wants to march round to arena (hadn't been my original plan, which was to go out, but any movement is better than none). we go in quite smartly and he picks up trot... 3/4 round he stops and plants.... at least there was room to dismount.
so i go back round and get back on and he plants again....
until person comes out on her horse, so i went out with her (not the ideal choice, but movement is good).
plan to go down the hill towards the river then right up a steep hill i've done before, through gate and wood - we get most of the way down to the river and she says she'll be cantering ... i say, ok, i'll turn off and come back different way when you do that...
so we go through wood... and she sets off in trot, which normally would be fine, but NOT with the low hanging branches to knock your head off, it was ridiculous (eventually she had to stop and walk herself, thank goodness) and the clouds of gnats we were riding through...she wasn't' prepared to change her plan at all....
time we got to the other end M was hyper as he was as hacked off with both those things as i was (and also, we never normally trot through there due to very steep drop to the left.....a cliff, basically!)
so i get off to lead back, and glad i had as i hadn't known (and he hadn't known) there were horse eating logs hiding in the long grass .....so i had to walk between him and them...
so go to get back on at yard - waste of time...
put him away and first thing he does is pee... maybe that was it? but i think not...
fed up, i am.
TB always moving? not this one.
waiting to hear how G got on today in the breaks in rain....
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