Posted on August 13th, 2009
Apologies blog readers for the recent quite spell from GHE, in the run up to West Wilts BE100 I unfortunately went down with Swine Flu! I was not relishing the concept of competing while still fighting off the bug so was half relieved and half disappointed when West Wilts was cancelled because of the ridiculous [...]
Posted on August 5th, 2009
Well yet another wet SJ schooling session, where has the summer gone?… Despite the gopping weather we had another very constructive lesson with Robert. We started by leg yielding to make sure Soap was off the leg and moving his quarters, this then progressed to a small 3 loop serpentine where the middle loop [...]
Posted on August 1st, 2009
So after 2 false starts due to missing shoes and pulled bottom muscles (the horse not me!) we finally made it to Hoplands for some sj schooling and not a minute too soon as the previous day I had stupidly over-bitted Soap in an attempt to gain some control and as a result ruined his [...]
Posted on August 1st, 2009
I am a bit of a stickler for matching XC colours and I have been on the look out for a new top to go under my back protector for a while when I came across a Canterbury base layer (like Ruth Edge wears!) in the exact same colour, even better you can get them [...]
