We had a really nice session with the boys this evening: Q first, who is a little plump sausage of Luso loveliness from enjoying the grazing far too much whilst Noodle and I were away. We both need to embark upon a fittening programme in time for our forthcoming Bento clinic, where I fully expect us both to boil our bananas off if we do not sharpen ourselves up a bit.
In any event we had a very good session and it is always the greatest of pleasures to sit on him again after riding other horses, however splendid or well trained they happen to be. Afterwards I gave Noodle a lunge lesson and she has made excellent progress over the last couple of weeks - rising trot is unrecognisable for one thing but more than that she had her first canters on Q! Really pleased with how it went for her, nice and balanced back to the trot again too, and of course Q was the consummate schoolmaster, expecting only adoration and kisses for his forbearance :)
Worked T again, who is looking much better and in very good shape - well covered and happy to be doing something. Well - I say that but when I went to fetch him he was in his stable and wandered off up the field when he saw the headcollar. I wandered off after him, he stopped and looked around, then trotted off into the next field before stopping to look again. Seeing me still in pursuit, he cantered off to the furthese point in his summer paddock to exchange pleasantries with Q, and waited for me to approach before cantering off again back to his winter paddock. Seeing me still in dogged pursuit, he clearly thought "oh alright then" and walked up to me to put his nose in the headcollar. It's the Vicar of Dibley "no, no, no, oh alright then".
Meanwhile the girls have been scanned and Alfama is not pregnant, so we are considering whether live cover mightn't be such a bad thing after all. We can fashion a teasing wall easily enough and use the picadeiro for covering, so we are currently considering our options.
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