Posts Written On July 2009

After time off due to a strained muscle, then brilliant but quite radical re-shoeing which made Soap ‘footy’ for over a week (cue me franticly dunking his feet in buckets of ice at every opportunity!) we ended up with just 3 days to prepare for our first ever PN level ODE! Not quite the run up to it I had planned! I spent the 3 days running through the BE Novice 111 dressage test we had to do which included counter canter, medium trot/canter, and rein back (none of these movements Soap is established in or has ever done in…

There is a lovely local show held every year by the Tedworth Hunt and even though I’m not a big fan of showing I usually go to do the odd class and a dressage test because it’s such a friendly and well run local event. My other half came along to take pics, and my friend took her young horse too for the experience. Here we are getting ready searching for the correct studs, and meticulously applying my quarter marks! Check out my Mountain Horse togs, very snazzy, but far too ‘look at me’ for the show ring! Into the…

I got home the other day to find a huge brown box with my name on it waiting for me! I was worried at first that maybe I had begun ‘sleep shopping’ and had been indulging in some nocturnal bidding on eBay, but thank fully it was a whole host of goodies form my sponsor Mountain Horse! Angie at Mountain Horse had posted me a load of lovely summer products including lightweight breeches, t-shirts, baseball cap, zippy top, and best of all some gorgeous leather long boots and the corresponding stirrups! I think Angie must be a mind reader as…