Naughty hacks, Supplements4horses, bbq's & nice farmers!!

Ok so it is such a long time since I blogged that I thought we'd better play a bit of catch up!!   As you can see from the above picture, Alex is still coming to ride Millie and this picture was taken before she went off on her first hack alone.  I am glad to say that the pair of them were both very well behaved and now hack out regularly alone.  Alex is becoming all grown up now and has a proper job and lots of college work to fit in around Millie.  The dark nights have put paid to later hacks in the week but we still manage to get Millie out at a weekend.

Mez has been periodically ridden over the last few months...mainly when I have entered for a dressage competition and thought I had better pull my finger out!!!  She was 7th in the Pet Plan Prelim Festival and 12th in the Novice at Myerscough at the end of October.  Not bad for a bog pony....I think it was the dressage shoes that really made a difference that I asked Barry to put on!!   This is us in the school we are allowed to use just 10 mins up the road.  We have made some good friends since moving to Dolphinholme.  I have entered us for dressage next Saturday and will be doing the prelim and the novice.

Tilly has been very naughty recently during our hacks!!!!  She has been having temper tantrums on the road and stopped the poor road workers at one point!!  So I have changed the fields round so they are in a bigger one and also put her back onto just hay.  So no haylage for Tilly now.......I hacked her today and she was a bit better but she is still ginger and feisty!!!!   We are aiming to go to Somerford Park the week before Christmas with Helen and Tolly to do the winter farmride which is six miles long.  There are jumps on it but I am not meant to be jumping until the new year so Tilly and I will just be having a canter.....hopefully together..... 
I am going to take her to the beach in the next couple of weeks and have asked Peter to come with me in case he needs to catch her and leg me back on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   I need to now start her canter work and make sure that she stays sound before going to Somerford in December.  If all goes according to plan then I will start jumping after Christmas and aim to start eventing again next year.......I'm excited already!

Kirkby and Maisey have been having a summer of fun!

They have been very well behaved since we moved and we have now got a mains electric fence and at last Maisey has a healthy respect for it!!  The field shelter is split into two stables and they have a haynet in there each night.  I have just rugged them up this week and I did think that Kirkby would have something to say about it but he acted like he couldn't care less....maybe he will be sensible after all!!!!!!!!
Kirkby started kicking the stable before we moved and was injected with steroids which did not seem to help...I have narrowed it down to the straw so I changed him onto barley straw to see if that made a difference.  It has improved things but he is still kicking and something is really irritating his feet so I am going to have to put him on shavings this week.  Fingers crossed please!

Supplements 4 Horses is going really well and had just started it's own blog this week.  Please be sure to ask if you can not find the product you are after and I will do my best to source it for you get the best price available. 

All in all, life in Dolphinholme is very good and Nateby is just a distant memory.  Peter and I have learnt how to BBQ and the farmer even stopped by to let us know when they would be shooting so the horses would be ok!!!  That's a first.....at Nateby we just used to find them in the field!!!