By chance was chatting with my RI the other day about a young pony she has loaned to our old RS in order to bring on his education & maintain him until he gets through his adolescent stage. I'd seen some photos of him competing and said what a dream that would be for Cocaïne's education. And from there the ball snowballed and now she's off to "bootcamp" for a week at the end of June to the same RS.
She'll be ridden twice a day during the weeks training course by riders taking their Galop 5 & 6 exams which will include dressage, show jumping and cross. Not sure how those relate exactly to the English system but basically they go from Galop 1-7 (Galops 8 & 9 being specialising in a certain discipline)
The RS is only 15mins drive from me as opposed to 40mins drive to the livery so I'll be able to go and visit and hopefully watch some training too.
She's 5 and I've had her since backed at 3,5years , theres only me that rides her & I'd quite like her to experience other things that she would't perhaps do with me i.e. I'm a bit of a big girls blouse about jumping, I like it and she has improved loads very recently but I'm not as gung ho as I used to be! I haven't attempted any cross with her so far at all. Hacking out is improving and I've just last week managed to achieve trotting on the bit with some amazing impulsion. I've never brought on a youngster before so I've been slow to achieve certain goals if you like but then again I've never been in any rush and I don't anticipate competing at all.
So I'm hoping the experience will be good for her even if all doesn't go well (if you know what I mean - learning by default is a great accomplishment too IMO ) She'll be going in a van which will add to her experience (she has always gone in fine but we've never travelled) + I think it will be good for her to change herds for a short time in order to understand that she will always come back home to them.
Opinions welcome, positive or negative
Ooh, PS, going to see the YO at RS this afternoon to agree things in finer detail
She'll be ridden twice a day during the weeks training course by riders taking their Galop 5 & 6 exams which will include dressage, show jumping and cross. Not sure how those relate exactly to the English system but basically they go from Galop 1-7 (Galops 8 & 9 being specialising in a certain discipline)
The RS is only 15mins drive from me as opposed to 40mins drive to the livery so I'll be able to go and visit and hopefully watch some training too.
She's 5 and I've had her since backed at 3,5years , theres only me that rides her & I'd quite like her to experience other things that she would't perhaps do with me i.e. I'm a bit of a big girls blouse about jumping, I like it and she has improved loads very recently but I'm not as gung ho as I used to be! I haven't attempted any cross with her so far at all. Hacking out is improving and I've just last week managed to achieve trotting on the bit with some amazing impulsion. I've never brought on a youngster before so I've been slow to achieve certain goals if you like but then again I've never been in any rush and I don't anticipate competing at all.
So I'm hoping the experience will be good for her even if all doesn't go well (if you know what I mean - learning by default is a great accomplishment too IMO ) She'll be going in a van which will add to her experience (she has always gone in fine but we've never travelled) + I think it will be good for her to change herds for a short time in order to understand that she will always come back home to them.
Opinions welcome, positive or negative
Ooh, PS, going to see the YO at RS this afternoon to agree things in finer detail