Stress points of the horse.
30 Nov 2012
"Gypsy Style"
Today I felt almost like real gypsy. It was a fun and exciting way to move the horses. It took us 1.5 hours to ride out to Stud Kronplet. The horses handled the traffic really good!
However, my friends' horse was very nervous and unfortunately he ran twice out on the road, fortunately nothing happend, but it got really close the second time when i ran of with her! My heart jumed right up in my throat. She was pretty shocked when we got to the stable. But as I said to her, nothing happened, we are all alive and you just have to think positive. We're safe now and the horses are doing fine :-)
Giga is enjoying the view, she can see all the handsome stallions;)
Victor is very pleased with the new service!
29 Nov 2012
Very busy day
I've had a very busy day. The whole day has gone by riding and training horses.
I went to school at 8 o'clock, helped out in the barn and then I got told to go for a long walk with an injured horse. I walked for 30 minutes with a slightly fresh and nervous mare. Cute but hot-headed type. It went really well. Later we were handed horses. I got a horse named Luo Luo or as everyone calls her "the giraffe", she is very difficult to ride and runs with her head high in the clouds. So I just thought, oh no! I've never seen anyone who could ride her properly. She was very nervous at first, but when I got her warmed up it was really nice to ride her. I had no problems riding her. She was beautiful and relaxed and even my teacher was quite surprised. And yes it's easy to sit here and brag. But I brag very rarely and just in this case I'm SO proud of myself :-D
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| The injured mare
After school I had to hurry out to Victor and Giga. My beloved farrier came today and took care of the horses' hooves. Giga was praised to the skies but Victor was not easy today. Fortunately, Ian has an extreme good understanding in horse behavior and he treated Victor really nice despite he was several times very violent in his behavior. My farrier thinks many of his problems are mental, and he probably has been abused really bad. Fortunately, Ian just so calm and nice. I still hope I can keep him in despite of I'm moving the horses to another farm!
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28 Nov 2012
-10 degrees and a lot of snow!
I could almost not have timed it better concerning moving my horses. On the 1/12, they have promised -10 degrees and a lot of snow. Poor all the horses that sleeps out on the fields at Flower Farm. After the owner has over crowded the fields there isn't room for all in their small sheds! Well I'm pretty happy to get my horses in a warm stable :-)
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