New Feed (Again)
Rocky Road to Dressage
by Rocky Road to Dressage
3y ago
A couple of months ago I started changing Brevan over to a new feed, which seems to tick more boxes for me than the Keyflow feed did. I am now feeding Brevan and Nas Pure Feeds. Brevan is on Pure Working, and Nas is on Pure Fibre Balance. I am liking the fact that these feeds are molasses, alfalfa and cereal free, and that they are complete feeds including the fibre element, so that means I don’t need to buy chaff as well as a mix. Pure Feeds claim that their feed that is “convenient, cost-effective and contains all the ingredients your horse needs for a healthy, happy life. The feeds are form ..read more
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A Successful Day Out For All
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by Rocky Road to Dressage
3y ago
On Monday the mother and I took both ponies out to a local in hand showing show. This was mother’s first ever competition, and also possibly her pony’s first ever competition as well. Everybody did really well, and it was a nice low key event to hopefully give the mother a taste for showing. It was an early start for some of us, while others got more of a lie in. I was up at 4am, to be at the yard for just gone 5am, as I had both ponies to get ready. Mother was going to meet me at the show in time for her first class at 10am. As I’d been working the day before, I hadn’t had a chance to do any ..read more
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Pony Painting Parties
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by Rocky Road to Dressage
3y ago
What on earth is all this hoo ha about on social media this week about pony painting parties, and some woman in Manchester wanting to get them banned? Supposedly it is abuse on the ponies and teaches kids to objectify horses and that we can do anything we like to animals. PLEASE!!! From what I’ve been able to find out (sorry, I can’t seem to find the Facebook post I read yesterday morning), quite often this is being used as therapy for kids with autism or various learning difficulties. Lucy-Anne Petto, who works for Therapeutic Equine Assistance Learning (TEAL), which has worked with compani ..read more
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We Qualified!
Rocky Road to Dressage
by Rocky Road to Dressage
3y ago
On Wednesday we went out competing at our usual local venue, as we needed two more qualifying scores of 60% or more at elementary level, to qualify for the Native Breeds Championship in November. It wasn’t our best day, but we did just about squeak in with two qualifying scores, so I’m happy enough. It wasn’t too early a start, as we weren’t getting picked up until 9.30am, so getting to the yard at 6am, I had plenty of time to bath, plait and prep. We got to the show in plenty of time and had a leisurely brush off and tack up. I then got changed, and even managed to stay clean once I was on b ..read more
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Bootcamp
Rocky Road to Dressage
by Rocky Road to Dressage
3y ago
This week I took Brevan to dressage boot camp with British Dressage accredited coach, Maddi Burchell. My transport lady dropped Brevan down there on Sunday afternoon, ready for our first lesson on Monday morning. I was quite pleased that Brevan settled into his temporary new home with minimal fuss and histrionics, even though he has stallions next to him. Day one of bootcamp was definitely hard work, for both of us. The morning lesson consisted of Maddie watching how we normally warm up, commenting on how I can improve it and make life easier for Brevan, and then working on our trot work. As ..read more
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New Member of the Family
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by Rocky Road to Dressage
3y ago
I’m so pleased to introduce you all to my mum’s new pony, Nas (otherwise just known as Princess), a 13.2hh Welsh Section A (or possibly a cross) of somewhere between 9 and 14 years old. Mum has been umming and ahhing over getting a horse for as long as I’ve been riding and around horses (that’s about 20 years), and has finally bitten the bullet and got little Nas on loan from a local rescue. Being a rescue, we don’t know a huge amount about Nas (almost certainly not her original name). The rescue found her a few years ago in a very bad state, and shortly after getting her, she had a foal. Aft ..read more
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Back Again After a Break
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by Rocky Road to Dressage
3y ago
After a bit of a break from competing (mainly due to lack of funds), we finally got out again last week. It’s been two months since we were last out at Blue Barn strutting our stuff, but we’ve been training hard in the mean time, so hopefully we are slowly improving. Wednesday wasn’t too early a start, as my first class wasn’t until 10.40am, but I did still need to plait up before we could go anywhere, as I wasn’t going to leave Brevan in the field overnight with plaits in, as they probably wouldn’t have still been in by the morning. I’m not sure how much Brevan appreciated being plaited up at ..read more
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Summer Clipping
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by Rocky Road to Dressage
3y ago
As it’s been so hot recently, and with Brevan being black, I’m considering clipping him out for the rest of the summer. He’s just getting too hot when I ride him, and even after having an early morning lesson last week (9am), we were both absolutely dripping by the end of it. I know that traditionally you don’t clip in the summer, but I saw this post on Facebook the other day, and it made me think even more about clipping Brevan out. I did clip him last summer, and as soon as I did so, the temperature dropped and it went cold and wet again (maybe that’s another good reason to clip, we need so ..read more
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New Sponsor
Rocky Road to Dressage
by Rocky Road to Dressage
3y ago
I’d like to introduce you all to my friend and new sponsor, Laura Campbell of Get Ready, Get Fit. Laura qualified as a personal trainer a few months ago, and has actually been my sponsor for a month now (I was waiting til I had enough photos to be able to do this blog justice). Laura has been my riding instructor for about a year now, and knows my issues inside out, so our PT sessions are aimed at helping me improve on the ground, what I struggle with in the saddle. Laura is also my best friend, and has known me and Brevan for nearly four years now I think. She knows exactly what I’m capable ..read more
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An Afternoon with the Kiddies
Rocky Road to Dressage
by Rocky Road to Dressage
3y ago
On Saturday afternoon my friend came to visit Brevan and me with her two young children, Ella and Jake. They have visited before, but this time I had a pony each for them to ride. We started off having a picnic lunch on the yard, with the kids playing about while Sarah and I had a bit of a catch up. We’ve been friends since school, and even though we drifted apart for a number of years, we drifted together again about two years ago, and Sarah was one of my bridesmaids at my wedding last year. Before we let the children ride, they had to do a bit of work first to earn their rides. When I’d poo ..read more
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