The ride today.

Omg, it was so cold today. I swear my fingers nearly froze off. Anyway, went down the the yard this morning gave the horse their breakfast, mucked out and tacked up. The we were on our way [= I hadn't done this ride before so it was a new experience, lol. Anyway, the ride would be in fields most the time, so I rode zippy in the pelham - Becase she thinks 'Grass = Flat out gallop' Even if she has a swollen leg! And my god, I'm so glad I did ride her in that! The first part of the ride she was just pootling along, but then PING! She was off! Jogging the whole way ¬¬ Then we got to this pond thingy, and we went in and she spalshed about. Then we went through again, and she went zooom, and I lost a stirrup and got a face full of branches but luckily I didn't fall off ;) I just can't believe that zippy is actually 21! She has so much life in her :L as i know ... Her leg, really dosen't seem as swollen anymore. The cortaflex could be ... could be working. I really hope it does xD

Riding

I've just come back from riding zippy. It was actually great :D She was full of bounce and took off with me:L We went round the town, which she really enjoyed and so did I. Came back washed her legs, and I noticed that the swelling had gone down. But, her owner and I don't want to do trot work incase, it swells up badly and she goes lame. So its abit .. : ... about what to do at the moment. We did have a few little trots today, and she was okay .. but yeah :) Going down the yard tomorrow, and were gunna go and have a ride round somewhere called 'The Farm' '-'. I've heard its mostly fields, so its a shame we can't go round for a canter. :( Oh well. I love zippy =D

GRRRR.

OMG. I am not in a good mood tbh.

One of my zippy videos (the only one with over 1,000 views) has been disabled! DISABLED! Its been up for months and now someone decided to claim the music! Grrrrr. I keep trying to replace the music, with crappy youtube music, but it keeps saying error! Like wtf :L

grgrgrgrgr. I DONT want it too get deleted.

I will just have to try AGAIN tomorrow, i guess ...

Anyway on a good note! Made a new video of me and zippy lol; http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BMBkmeLDReg

oooh, and i found this extremley cute pic of zippy from when i first started loaning her! she looks soo fluffy ^^

xx

Just gotta wait and see.

Just come back from doing the horses, zippy was such a cutie today :D
She's been on her medicine for a couple of days so far.
But there doesn't seem to be any effect yet. But of course we will give it a month or so :)
Decided i might teach zippy some simple tricks, to create a stronger bond between us, xx

umm ..

Decided that I am going to make yet another video of zippy, but this time a thankyou one. To thank her for everything she's taught me etc, because to be honest I wouldn't be the rider I am today with out her - *Sniffle* I now just need to find a nice song, which seems to be proving difficult :P I'm sure I'll think of something though. I'm going to make this video very special, somehow :P Ahh still can't believe that this has happened. Had so many events planned for next year. Just my luck i guess :(

I'm a celeb's on now, better go! :D

Thankyou Sam & Charlotte for following :P

xx

P.s that picture is of zippy in her younger days! Dosen't she look lush! :P

zipps.

Zippys bad leg, is getting weak :(
she keeps slipping, and nearly falling over :/
I just hope her medicine helps her in some way. It should do as i've heard stories that its very good [=
Will just have to see how things go, i guess.
xx

LOL

LOL. I don't think i actually have anyone reading my blogs :L Oh well. We got zippy's medicine today. I really hope it helps her. It was £52 and should last a month, now just gotta hope it has some effect. Umm yeah i just rode zippy (bareback) while leading bobby, to their field today - and that was all the riding i done today; as i then went off to watch some dressage which was good =]

P.s I made a zippy edit :D as i was feeling abit down about stuff. Not sure what though :L

x

Zippy :(

I have been loaning for just over 7 months, but now i think the time is coming to end. Sadly zippy has a leg injury where soon she will have to retire at the age of 21. She has taught me so much, so this is very hard for me. I still can't quite believe it. I rode her on the 7th may for the first time, i knew as soon as i got on her that she was perfect. we went on a hack, and into a field where we had an accidental flat out gallop - but looking back on that now. I'm glad it happened. I had her on trial for a month, and everything went perfect. I was having the time of my life. As time went on things were getting better and better. A bond started too form. Life was great :D Then one day when i was having a lesson on her, she tripped and fell with me on her. It shook me, but i knew it was an accident. Then we started jumping, and she gave me all the confidence in the world! Before i had none, as i was at a riding school where i learnt nothing. With zippy i ended up jumping 2ft with loads of confidence. I couldn't believe how far we had come. I done my first ever show in july, we did'nt get placed, but i learnt alot. But on my second show i got placed! I was over the moon! 6th place was good enough for me xD But back to now, sadly zippy has to semi-retire :'( I still can't get my head around it. When i first found out, i couldn't stop crying. Zippy is seriouley my everything at the moment, she gets me throught school and stuff. Now i can only walk on her :( and when goes lame again, then theres not much that can be done. Apart from put her into full retirement. So yeah, nothings going right at the moment. I am going to stick with zippy even if we are only able to walk, i love her dearly :( I have so many pictures, videos, and memories in just a short 7 months. The things which have made me really sad are - 1) The thought of zippy just being sat in a field, 2) Knowing that we had so much planned for next year which is now all a dream, 3) Im meant to be making zippy a numnah for my GCSE textiles, its meant to have her name embrioded on it :'( And it seems like i won't be able use it on her :( and 4) I really wanted to gallop across a beach on zippy :( Thankyou so so so much to her owner. I have learnt so much from you, thankyou for giving me lessons i really appreicate everything. Thankyou for hacking out with me, taking me places, taking me and jess to your horse live and taking me shows. I hope that i'll be able to find a horse like zippy, and near zippy, so that i can still hack out with you and maybe do the plans we hd with zippy on another horse. but one thing for sure, i will never ever forget zippy, and i will always visit her. thanks if you read this far, xxx