Equifest

Decided that since the weather was better, for once, than ofrecast, the thing to do would be to equifest as though my life depended on it. As T was in munching hay, he went first. Primped and scrubbed and even brushed his tail :O which I believe to be a first since we moved. Bad Momma.
We did some straightening work and he was straight into it, bless his heart. He had one big spook at the onset when a cyclist went by then after that ignored them. We did quite a lot of lateral work, LY and SI followed by milling. I was going to start renvers with him but couldn't get my head round it so left it :)
We finished with some very nice piaffe steps and this time I didn't just finish in a heap of gratitude after the first effort, we worked on it and got some nice efforts - again better on the left than the right. Hmmm.

Its an awesome thing being so close to such a magnificent stallion especially when you have such a bird's eye view of that world beater of a neck rising snake-like out of his withers. He's an awesome boy. Awesome. Very attentive throughout and a very enjoyable session.

Q next, who was a complete fart at the outset; spooky and manic. Not helped by those bloody barking dogs. Was on the verge of losing it for a while there and had to reel myself back in in a conscious fashion. Once I did Q settled and we did some straightening work, much the same as with T followed by laterals. He is looking good at the moment; lost that bit of padding and looking (and clearly feeling) very well. To finish we did some work on goat on a mountain top and some piaffe steps - his best efforts came in "Dog Corner".


Two lovely sessions, really enjoy the work in hand. In some ways at least as much as riding, which will be handy when I'm old and unnecessary and no longer able to get on a horse.

Otherwise Sid's back is better today so maybe tomorrow we can get on with some stuff.

Having just eaten my own bodyweight in cheese, it's time to go and do lates.