Rocky Road to Dressage

A couple of months ago I started changing Brevan over to a new feed, which seems to tick more boxes for me than the Keyflow feed did. I am now feeding Brevan and Nas Pure Feeds. Brevan is on Pure Working, and Nas is on Pure Fibre Balance. I am liking the fact that these […]... [Read more]

On Monday the mother and I took both ponies out to a local in hand showing show. This was mother’s first ever competition, and also possibly her pony’s first ever competition as well. Everybody did really well, and it was a nice low key event to hopefully give the mother a taste for showing. It […]... [Read more]

What on earth is all this hoo ha about on social media this week about pony painting parties, and some woman in Manchester wanting to get them banned? Supposedly it is abuse on the ponies and teaches kids to objectify horses and that we can do anything we like to animals. PLEASE!!! From what I’ve […]... [Read more]

On Wednesday we went out competing at our usual local venue, as we needed two more qualifying scores of 60% or more at elementary level, to qualify for the Native Breeds Championship in November. It wasn’t our best day, but we did just about squeak in with two qualifying scores, so I’m happy enough. It […]... [Read more]

This week I took Brevan to dressage boot camp with British Dressage accredited coach, Maddi Burchell. My transport lady dropped Brevan down there on Sunday afternoon, ready for our first lesson on Monday morning. I was quite pleased that Brevan settled into his temporary new home with minimal fuss and histrionics, even though he has […]... [Read more]

I’m so pleased to introduce you all to my mum’s new pony, Nas (otherwise just known as Princess), a 13.2hh Welsh Section A (or possibly a cross) of somewhere between 9 and 14 years old. Mum has been umming and ahhing over getting a horse for as long as I’ve been riding and around horses […]... [Read more]

After a bit of a break from competing (mainly due to lack of funds), we finally got out again last week. It’s been two months since we were last out at Blue Barn strutting our stuff, but we’ve been training hard in the mean time, so hopefully we are slowly improving. Wednesday wasn’t too early […]... [Read more]

As it’s been so hot recently, and with Brevan being black, I’m considering clipping him out for the rest of the summer. He’s just getting too hot when I ride him, and even after having an early morning lesson last week (9am), we were both absolutely dripping by the end of it. I know that […]... [Read more]

I’d like to introduce you all to my friend and new sponsor, Laura Campbell of Get Ready, Get Fit. Laura qualified as a personal trainer a few months ago, and has actually been my sponsor for a month now (I was waiting til I had enough photos to be able to do this blog justice). […]... [Read more]

On Saturday afternoon my friend came to visit Brevan and me with her two young children, Ella and Jake. They have visited before, but this time I had a pony each for them to ride. We started off having a picnic lunch on the yard, with the kids playing about while Sarah and I had […]... [Read more]