Rain Rain Go Away!!

Its absolutely crazy the amount of rain we have had recently - I'm sure everyone else has been experiencing it too!

I've been working really hard with Enzo, hes getting pretty good at his walk to canter transitions but still need a lot of work especially on the downward transition! But he is a working progress of course :) He will get there!

I was looking to take him to a local show this weekend but its on grass and with the amount of rain we have had lately I don't want to risk him slipping especially as he is still unshod. So the training continues until the next one comes along! I will get some videos and pictures of my little man!

Lets get ready to rumble!!

So Enzo went training for the very first time with Philip Spivey last weekend. Philip hasn't seen him since last May and Enzo went extremely spooky of course! We did a small grid, water tray, cavaletti and a 5 strided distance. It was all very good experience for him and found a lot of things I have still got to work on (but we knew that was coming!) This is a little video of him jumping the water tray!

I've also been working hard on the homework that Anna Bostrand-Daly gave me in our last dressage lesson. We had a follow up lesson this afternoon and still have a lot more to work on! He had his silly and yet lazy head on today and I got the giggles because Anna was laughing too much at him being 'Mr Snail'.  Despite his canter still being quite poor, the trot is getting much better. So my homework this time is short sharp transitions walk to trot and back down, walk to canter and back down and lots of figures of eights!

Schooling time!

I took Enzo and new boy Henry to Forest Edge last Thursday, I was meant to take Griff too but long story!
So it took ages to get Enzo to even trot round the arena! The video below is the final course he jumped but it took a little while to get to that point. He literally stopped at everything first time and then jumped it the second time but I expected nothing less as he's so spooky even at home! He was having a heart attack at these fences bless him. Here is the video of him once he got his confidence.

Please leave comments - let me know what you think of him!