August was a bit disappointing with Basil’s shoe and foot issues. However, we got back on track for the end of the month. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago I swapped the horses back to their in at night routine on 24th as it was getting colder at night. It means I am now not riding early in the morning – it is too cold and dark anyway!
Tommy is properly moulting now and I can’t believe how much summer coat there is coming out. He will start developing his really thick winter coat soon :)
This is how August looked:
1st – arena and some nice walk and trot leg yield today. Canters were not bad today either.
3rd – hacked out this morning and managed to get Basil to walk over the new white diamond road markings – yeah!
4th – hack again today. My favourite thing.
7th – lunged, Basil was a bit silly to start off but then he settled and worked well.
Lots of rain :(
11th – was planning a ride today but Basil had knocked his near hind shoe slightly sideways so that the quarter clip was all bent.
13th – I decided I could lunge Basil as his shoe hadn’t moved any more, the nails and clip were not anywhere causing issues.
Farrier came to put his shoe back on, ended up replacing both back shoes as he was due the following week for a new set anyway.
14th – lunged again and we did some of our pole exercises again as he seemed settled.
16th - lunged but Basil was distracted today. He was not bad but we didn’t do any pole exercises today as I was concerned he would run off when I tried to lead him over the poles.
17th – hack out now that Basil has his shoes sorted. He was very good and walked over all the new white road markings.
18th – hack again. I love getting out early in the morning when everyone is still asleep and the roads are quiet.
20th – lunged today and Basil was silly.
21st – arena today. Basil was not bad considering it is a few weeks since we have schooled. Walk and trot leg yield was good until Basil thought it was time to canter. Then he was impossible to get the correct lead on the left rein. We got it wrong at least 4 or 5 times before getting it right. The actual canter was quite good. On the right rein we got the wrong lead twice before getting it correctly. Again, canter was nice but too fast. He just gets too excited about cantering and becomes all nappy so it is difficult to get the right bend to help get the correct lead.
23rd – lunged today and really pleased with Basil because he was good and it was really foggy surrounding us.
Basil seemed a bit lame on his off fore.
30th – Basil seems better so hacked out gently. He was very keen today. I was really pleased with him because we got past a lorry unloading with a cement mixer on the other side!
31st – hack out again today, he was a bit jumpy but it was windy.
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Until
next time!
Jo
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