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Zippy is okay at the moment. There is no lame-ness and the heat has gone from her leg, so all goood so far. Will probably go for a little hack later, and tomorrow do some schooling, and hopefully do abit of cantering - Depending on her leg! She's gunna be 22 in May (more like 5 hehe) can't believe it! Golden oldie. I'm really regretting not jumping her bigger and stuff now. Well they say everything happens for a reason ;D

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Hacked out today, went through this narrow pathway, where I got attacked by about a million tree's and i was only wearing a little thin top, cos' it was pretty hot out! Got to this really flat field and zippy's like woo were off. So here we were at a very fast canter, and i was like 'omggg slow down' and she was liike 'omg lets gooo', and i always end up getting all tense which doesn't help. Arghh she's just so strong, even with the pelham in. We were heading towards the gate and I seriously didn't think she was gunna stop, but she did at the last minute phew. Rest of the ride was pretty good, but when we had another canter she was very strong once again and all fizzed up so I just had to try and relax. She got herself all hot and bothered though.. I think were going to clip her soon, we hadn't before though cos' we hadn't done much work - but now were doing alot of cantering :)

clear!

Went to clear round jumping today, and rode a pony called hercules and got a clear round, so pretty happy with that :) Was gunna chicken out as i haven't jumped in so long! Would of been nice to do it on Zippy but ya' know .. can't atm or never .. But yeah was good got a rosette (Y) Can't see Zippy till sunday now as I am busy grr :)
Two videos on the way;
Clear round jumping Bloopers & the good stuff xD

Over the moon ...

I am seriously so happy! I finally got Zippy cantering again, I just can't believe it. She did have exercise bandages on ... but they kept falling off :S Anyway, I was just so happy to be cantering her again - ahh it was just so lovely :) It was easier than I thought, she went straight off my leg most times - and she seemed to be really enjoying it. Now .. tomorrow we will just have to see what her leg looks like. Fingers crossed that its gunna be alright ... and if it is. We will go for a little canter out on a hack. Got lots of clips, so will add them to my february viedo! I love my zippy :D:D

ps. My sister got stuck in the mud in zippys field, was so bloody funny! We managed to get her out but not her boots aaha.

Schooling whilst out hacking

Today I had quite a good ride, it was getting late so we decided to only got to the end of the road. But it turned out to be very good, and alot of help. Umm, and I dunno why but I felt today that me and zippy really clicked ! :L Anyway, we done ALOT of trot work, and transitions to get her listening to me. One exercise was to trot to a certain point and try your best to go down to walk at a tree or something, and then to count 4 horse strides in walk and then trot again. This was really good, its also in my test tomorrow so it should help alot. Zippy was very forward going, and she'd flow into a trot :) Wish me luck for tomorrow I'm gunna need it! Theres like 30 people in my class : I have no hope of getting placed again! Luckily its outside though, and I think i'm gunna get it read out for backup consdidering its quite complicated. I'm looking forward to it though ;D

love her :)

Snow has been great I must say! But that means I haven't been able to see Zippy as much as I'd like to :( But i went down yesterday and rode, and also today and rode. I was very careful about the icey patches, as I didn't want her slipping! I don't think Z is enjoying the snow that much, she seems miserable - bless her. We have dressage on sunday, I won't get much time to practice because my mum is so busy at work so I can't get across there ... but will just have to see how it goes. I think its quite a complicated one though, haha. But only walk and trot, because we are going to start canter work with her when the ground is better :) xx
Ps - I keep getting faked?!? Its so annoying and horrible and just meh :(
It makes me soooo upset. Oh well i suppose i'll just have to 'GET OVER IT' as one of my lovely friend said ;/
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Dressage

Dressage went Ok :)

Could of been better :L

I felt like i rode really crap, and Zippy didn't help!

It was indoors which she doesn't seem to like so she went into tanking mode. Luckily I was able to control her, unlike I did on my first dressage haha. Didn't get placed, and got 55% .. not too bad considering the person in 1st place only got 68%. There's always next time .. the next one we are doing is at Lackham College - that should go ok as theres are outside. So yeah looking forward to that :)