Sunday 28 June 2009
The weather was beautiful today so i was determined to have a great play session with Andy, seeing as its been a very long while since our last!
I tried to be creative as i think Andys been getting bored sensless, so when playing the catching game when he started walking over i sat on the floor with my back to him, he came over and couldnt believe what his crzy human was doing, gave me push and a sniff then stood staring at me!
"Now that i have your attention" i thought, we'll see what we can do with the tarp, so i crawled on all fours over to the tarp, Andy followed-bemused! then i started to rub and wrap it round his legs- no problem.Then i sat on it and hide some treats on my shoes for him to find- Andy seemed impressed lol then hide them under the corners which kept him amused for aaagggess! Sniffing and pawing till he'd troffed the lot :)

Then i sat there, on the tarp, flapping it around, whilst he munched the grass, thinking.

Started rubing the tarp over his back and on his sides, *Lick and Chew* then the other.We've been playing with plastic bags and tarps for the past 2 or 3 session so they're no longer scary but actually quite fun! I waved it round in the air then pulled it over his head- every time he looked as if to say "Oh there you are!!" he didnt mind this, he got handfuls of grass after each time :) LBI!!!!!

Then i open it out and folded it over his back and pulled up and over his head- no problem :) He looked a little like a Super Andy wearing a cape :D Duh Duh Duh, Duuhhh, Duh Duh Duh, Duhhh!

Then the heat got the better of us and we fell asleep :) almost. I was stretched over his back and we both were just dosing off i think then it got too hot and so we ended our session there :)


Rode Blaze, went for a nice long one in the wood, through a stream and then galloped across the field- bareback :D

Shinobi is being sweet as ever and we've been having ago at playing with bags and the tarp also- He loved it :D as well as playing the driving game
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Sunday 14 June 2009
Not much to report this week, the ponies have been a bit neglected this week due to family matters. So iv been treasuring what little time i have been able to spend with them- lots of friendly and undemanding time.
Iv also managed (finaly!) to move all of our toys from the winter fields to the summer. How boring is pony time with no toys :D!!!!
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Thursday 4 June 2009

Oh my lordy i almost forgot!!!!!!

Me and my friend went to a local show, i entered the "thelwel look-a-like" class with her 28inch miniture, Wilba :D WE WON, or Wilba did rather lol
My friend also won her class too, with her 18 month old colt, he was good as gold :D




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Havnt been to much this week but thought it was bout time for a post :D

This past week iv been riding blaze as usual but have been ponying Andy along, and things have been going really well :) Iv only nearly rolled off over blazes bum a few times because Andy has stopped abruptly to eat some grass! Mmm those LBI!!!!!!! We've had ago at cantering around the field together- sooooo much fun and we ve even popped over a jump as a trio- even more fun :D

Blaze has been such a little star, she never sieses to make me proud, when riding her earlier this week i put on the polar heart monitor to see how fit she actually was. Now before i say anything else id like to share with you all that for the first 3 months or so of this year i didnt even sit on Blaze, it was all in hand pole work and gentle walks up the road, then slowly building it up to where we are now, longer walks, hill work and barley any trott and canter. (sorry im blabbing!)

Well it turns out that blazes heart rate was not far off, and at some places the same as what it was when she was at the top of her game when we were last competeing in Endurance in 2005 :D
Here recovery rate was super quick, it continued to go down even when we were going up hill!!! She was trotting on flat ground at a rate of 90-95 bpm (which was the same as when she was competing!) when trotting up hill her heart rate was in the 140's- again super and when we d finshed with the hill her heart rate dropped over 10 bpm when we continued trotting on the flat (extended trott!). When we got back i put her in her stall and checked what her heart rate was after a half hour (when competeing in Endurance you have a half hour from when you finish to present the horse to the vet for there heart rate to be recorded and be rewarded your grade :)) and by Joe it was 41, before we started the ride it was 40 so she was so very close to her resting pulse!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was so proud of her, parlty because we've had such an awful 3 years with injury after injury, now, she's fit and healthy and our dreams of progressing to intimidiate (sp?) standard in endurance are getting even closer :D
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