Update on us!
I rode Jo for the first time yesterday! We kept it short because there was no one at the barn to be found. Lol. I can’t walk her down to the ring myself and I didn’t want to tempt any major mishaps.
So, I did walk her up and down twice where I’ve been handwalking her. It’s a decent little jaunt - I’d say a quarter mile each way. We’ll need to work on mounting. She’s a big girl (16.2-3) and I’m not (5’4 ish) so…
She did get a little nervous once at birds that took off but no running. She just sidestepped. Not even quickly. I was able to keep a pretty loose but even rein on her.
A couple observations:
I had to use my warmblood girth on her. [IMG2=JSON]{“data-align”:“none”,“data-size”:“full”,“src”:"https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fd0/1/16/1f602.png). She’s big.
My bridle is cob sized with a horse browband. Lol
She’s unofficially 2 full hands taller than the last horse I leased (a warmblood in Germany) was. So my saddle suddenly did make me feel like I was a jockey sitting on her until I got myself adjusted.
Success. She was a very good girl and did not take one wrong step.
So she got some time afterwards to hand graze today.
Yesterday marked our first full week together. [IMG2=JSON]{“data-align”:“none”,“data-size”:“full”,“src”:"https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f68/1/16/1f495.png)
I am looking around at closer boarding options. Where I have her boarded is suitable, and I like the barn manager. But I feel I can find somewhere closer here in town and am looking either at the place up the street from me or somewhere on hunt country - which is only about 5 miles away. Our plan is to begin trail riding and eventually (if she is 1. able and 2. suitable) foxhunting, at least hilltop). That is, if I’m physically able to as well.
The barn where we are just doesn’t have many folks that I’d be able to hack out with to work on those skills together with. I think being here local in Camden, I’d be better suited to work on that with her. I don’t have a trailer — yet. LOL
Good start for us!
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