4.4.10 -
Another afternoon at Tregoyd, Holly becoming a
firm favourite with everyone as she has the most
superbly smooth paces and we can put anyone on
her - she is the perfect horse for anyone, never
gives anyone a moment's worry, even when the
shooting starts nearby. Needless to say,
her next foal is creating a lot of interest.
Pink as usual was the
second horse and all had a lovely ride on her,
Anita perfecting lead changes.
Ian had a wonderful
first ride on this lovely mare, loads of pics
below.
21.3.10 - We took
Holly along to Tregoyd last week. Her first ride
for over 3 years as she's been having foals. She
was 200% perfect and a few different people rode
her for a lesson, responsive, calm, gentle,
willing and sooooo smooth!!!
Anita on
Pink doing fantastic! Pink's second ride since
she came over a couple of years ago. Anita
has Mel's 2009 filly who is kept at Tregoyd on
livery and is doing great, a very sweet filly.
Click the link below to see the fun we had on
Sunday. I actually managed to ride Chianti
before Caroline came and I was oisted off!!!
LOL!!!
The lovely
Northern Chianti, one of our best broodmares had
a year off foaling this year so we took her to
Tregoyd to join in the western lessons with
Heidi. She hadn't been ridden for about 5
years and she just dropped straight back into
it, calm, sweet, willing and one of the most
honest horses you'll ever come across. Her paces
are smooth and she is light and responsive and
seemed to love it as much as the people riding
her!
Had a
fantastic day last weekend at Shane Borland's
reining clinic. Everybody enjoyed themselves,
had a lot of fun, learned loads and had a superb
lunch! Heidi was wonderful and as a
trained cutter/cowhorse, this was quite a
different experience for her and we found her to
be quite rusty (like her owner!) yet very
willing. Having only ridden out since we
imported her 3 years ago, it was a great
exercise for us both and great to see a
professional rider on her.
Everybody made us feel
very welcome and we can't wait for the next
clinic in May!
Shane and Vix are great
people and absolutely love their horses - Shane
did say at one point he'd stay until midnight if
we wanted...real dedication and passion for his
sport. Nice one Shane!
Apologies for the music....that'll teach me to mess
about with settings I don't understand!
On our way to the beach the whole area was flooded! Our
brave horses never faultered, they just waded in. On the way
back Stony decided to canter through it soaking poor Jackie!
Graham was doing his Blair Witch Project lookalike at the
beginning...without the screaming...that was Jackie and I
trying to stop!
Sunday 23rd November Jackie, Graham and I went to Kenfig
beach near Port Talbot. Second ride for these two on a
beach, it was very windy, raining on and off and the sea was
amazing! Our first gallop lasted about 3 miles before
we got to slow them, they were both really up for it.
This video is about an hour or so after we set off. Graham
caught us up and took this video.
Jackie
Michaels, 2-minds Horse/House/whatever needs sitting, sitter
came out for a ride with me last weekend. It was, as ever,
raining and blowing a gale but calmed down a bit when we got
out. Heidi and Stony absolutely love going out
together and we had a fantastic 2 hour ride, Jackie
quite at home on Stony, who she knew really well from when
she has house sat for us a few times when we've been away and
she is the best there is.
Graham had his first ride for years
at Christmas last year. Stony and Heidi have had the summer off and it was their
first ride since June. Both horses behaved impeccably, kept it at
a walk and trot as none of us were fit.
Graham had only ridden a couple of times
before pony trekking and a couple of times on Chianti, and he did
absolutely brilliant! Wish I'd been that confident with that
limited amount of experience.
Graham, or rather "Stony" taking the lead
Pics will be added to this page as we go out and ride in
different areas.
Bev and myself went out with Stony and Heidi
last year. We got a bit lost, well, not really true, we could see
where we should have been but couldn't get there due to padlocked gates
on the hill.
We ended up having a 4 hour ride, I left Bev with the 2
horses while I went ahead a few yards to see if it was boggy. It
wasn't. Then Stony obliged by finding a peat bog - up to her belly
in peat bog!! Didn't panic, Bev didn't panic, just got themselves
out of it.
Had to go back much the same way but not before we had a
breathtaking view of the Beacons and were almost as high as the highest
peak. It was awesome, the horses were awesome too!
They coped with bogs, ditches, very rough ground,
walking up a road which was large stones and more like a stream with all
the rain we'd had, very steep ascent and descents - one point we were
leading down as it was so steep and slippery I was virtually going down
on my bum leading Heidi, who thought "that's a good idea" and locked all
4 feet and went into a bambi-on-ice type slide, on her bum straight towards me and
slid for about 15 feet. Was she trying to break the longest
reining horse slide record?? Would have, but Heidi, you're not
supposed to slide with all 4 feet!!
She came to a stop with such a look on her face - "what
now?" "Follow Bev and Stony - to the right".
Phew!! Made it back to the track and even had
enough energy to move a cow about on the way back!
Did an organised fun ride 6th May - gosh these girls are
fit!
Stony and Jayne spotted some riders in the distance.
Just like a western movie - galloping
into the sunset
These are superb trail horses - we
crossed rivers, past JCBs logging, stepping over and around fallen trees
in our path, through a puddle on the track which turned out to be up to
their bellies! We were almost swimming! Corrugated sheets
flapping and banging in the fence, silage bags flapping on fences, sheep
darting out from behind gorse bushes, people parked on the common
thinking it funny to blow their horns - these two mares are just
faultless.
Jayne and I had a bit of
a gallop up to the point below...I said "I'll go in front and we'll see
how we get on"
Heidi and I were going at
a pretty fast gallop when I slowed a fraction and looked to see if Jayne
was behind me....she was calling out "coming up on the right" and went
past me like a tornado jet!! She flew past and up to the top and
literally left us standing! They absolutely loved it and so did
we!
We had the most fantastic
medium canter along a straight bit of common on the way back and it was
just amazing, cantering side by side, in control (for once!!!) balanced
and rhythmic for about a mile. Great, great horses....
Bev with Stony just as we were setting
off
The mist came down which was a shame
as we were hoping to get some amazing pics with the views
Just got back to the trailer.
Penyfan in the background - Heidi's ears in the foreground
