Its a while since Charlie and I have updated our blog and looking back to last year I said an x KS horse was like a game of snakes and ladders but I will confess the snakes are smaller and the ladders bigger.
Hacking continues to be mostly positive I stick to going out in company as that is where we both feel most confident and in fact at times Charlie takes the lead when others balk at small dragons.
We are now riding in the bottom fields happily and hacking back up the road as a relax I also try to take him for a buckle end chill post lessons down to the bottom paddock and letting him steal some grass.
We have now cantered in the Grove which was the scene of disaster in 2012 and i must say he was a very nice boy indeed.
We have had short solo hacks and one slightly longer which started badly and ended well.
We were all set to enter some small dressage competitions but then I had a run of bad luck. I think in hindsight he tweaked somthing but it involved me being bronced off in July so the old saying listen to your horse was not adhered to. I was schooling in the bottom field and worked too long he got grumpy and so did I.
I have had his saddle adjusted and his teeth checked and feel it may be saddle numnah combination which caused him to dump me as since this was done he has felt a nicer smoother ride.
