DD is already planning her showing campaign and has somehow talked me into keeping her sheltie x (her old lead rein pony - meant to be going out on loan) to compete with too 
. He is fab at jumping and should be good at gymkhana, her section A is a good little showing pony (very low level though).
Our first outing is next week - a 1ft jumping competition.
So come on everyone. Winter is nearly over, Spring is almost here. I just know you're all getting excited about the coming season. 
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It's March, the weather is improving, days are getting longer. What are our equestrian plans this summer?
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Callisto · 03/03/2013 09:50
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CMOTDibbler ·
03/03/2013 18:23
Gorgeous pony Butkin!
We had a lovely hack today as everything is drying up nicely now. However, I have had a bit of a break from running with dpony lately, and the long trots out are hard work! Ds has plans for long hacks up into the hills with his saddlebags full of food, which may test my endurance
I'm still looking for a share where the horse isn't mad, or the owner wants all the weekday jobs done and lots of money
marialuisa ·
04/03/2013 13:03
DD is starting to get back into things after poor dpony was out of action for a while. She seems to have picked up some bizarre (bad) habits as a result of not riding for a while though 
. We went round a local xc course yesterday which made a change and may go and play handy pony and gymkhana games next Sunday. Poor dpony is unlikely to be fit to be seen in public for a while so DD's plans of early qualifiers have been knocked on the head.
Butkin- nothing is selling at the moment. I have friends with 2 HOYS ponies for sale, both placed there several times in the last few years and not a bite, even at £3k mark. Another has a WHP which has already got its RI ticket, no interest there either.
miggy ·
04/03/2013 23:09
DS's season starts at the end of the month, we are then away, with pony, on average two weekends a month till end of September.
Puts a bit of a downer on anything I might want to do , managed about four endurance rides last season grr! Still it keeps him off the Xbox and I can do my thing when he is off at uni (if I not to old to get on a blasted horse at that point!)
Ullena ·
05/03/2013 21:09
DH and I are off to visit our old horse this May! Her new owner has invited us to come and see how she is doing 
A teeny weeny part of me wants to tell them to put us down for first refusal if they ever decide to sell her themselves, as she ended up in a dodgy spot for a while between being sold by us and later bought by them 
Doubt that they intend to ever sell though!
Aside from that, I hope to be cantering and maybe even jumping by August. And perhaps horse shopping too...we will see how things go.
Principality ·
05/03/2013 22:43
Well... we got new loan pony in Feb on a trial and said "Yes please!" to keeping him on full loan last weekend.
Thus far I have been hacking and schooling and DS is doing the same, managing to ride about 3/4 times per week between homework and afterschool clubs etc. He took him to PC in the holidays. Firstly a scavenger hunt (which sent Dpony a bit nuts
despite everyone else walking no whizzing... ) We then took him to a local RC to do a private course hire. He had grown about 2 hands when we got him off the box!! He was a bit snorty and spooky but settled ok. Then a few days later, they went to DS's first ever rally. It went so so well... until about ten min before the end pony had a lightbulb moment and remembered he was a super whizz at jump offs... Ds exited the front window.. :(
So... the plan is to carry on taking both of them out and about to get DS used to it and Dpony back into the routine of going out again. So we have a few showing shows planned as well as PC rallies and lessons for the next 2 or 3 months. I hope that by mid summer they will be out competing at low level local shows. I think they can crack it, if Ds doesn't get too nervous and then creep forward out of his seat rather than sitting on his bum and tells Dpony "No!" and means it... Fingers crossed.
I would like to take Dpony to a few veteran classes maybe and maybe some clinics etc. I had my first jumping lesson since I was a young teenager last week. He was a super good boy and really helped me out. It just seems to be when we go out that the jumping sends him a bit doolally.
Callisto ·
10/03/2013 11:59
Bloody weather strikes again. The show was rained off - flooded warm up area. DD has worked so hard and been so gutsy and determined with both ponies for the last two weeks, and when I had to tell her on the day that we wouldn't be going she was nearly in tears.
Please, please let us not have another summer of endless rain and no bloody shows because everything is bottomless mud.
Still, I am so proud of her, she has got little devil sheltie going so well and they are starting to form a real bond (he is no lover of children, but he is getting quite affectionate with DD) and the section A is going so much better with her than when we got him this time last year.
Glad to hear that everyone else is getting into the swing of things, it's so nice to have the whole gamut here - from the ultra professional (Butkin) to the absolute beginners. Lets all hope for sun and a successful season for all.
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Loshad ·
10/03/2013 15:17
eventing for me this summer, mix of unaff showcross, some BE90s and hopefully move up to do some BE100s despite advanced age of jockey
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