2024 Hacking Thread
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Followed by "robin just trot" "canter?" "No just trot" " canter now?" and so on. Then "fine just canter"
Luckily he stopped and waited for me to get back in the plate as I thought I was off!
We are still walking as there isn't anywhere that's not waterlogged to see how her trot is. I don't want to ask on the road as that's a hard surface.
It will be a year since I trotted as this time last year it was also waterlogged so we weren't.
Is he totally sound, that's fab.
It will be a year since I trotted as this time last year it was also waterlogged so we weren't.
Is he totally sound, that's fab.
Jess and Monkey have been on the front paddock for 10 days now, we have to go out the main gate across the driveway and in another gate so I string electric fence across and let them take themselves. Every time, Jess stops and looks wistfully up the driveway and she’s been incredibly sound for several months so we snuck out and enjoyed the last 20 minutes of daylight!
She was one very happy bunny, marched the entire way and insisted Monkey kept up as she wasn’t slowing down for him
She was one very happy bunny, marched the entire way and insisted Monkey kept up as she wasn’t slowing down for him
Managed to get out. I didn't bother getting a photo of her face, it didn't look any better from the last time.
I actually wonder if she's just as fed up with the rain as I am right now.
I got a photo of her muddy hooves instead. She's learnt very fast to pop the one on the mat that I want to clean first.
I will let the front feather grow back, now isn't that option.
I actually wonder if she's just as fed up with the rain as I am right now.
I got a photo of her muddy hooves instead. She's learnt very fast to pop the one on the mat that I want to clean first.
I will let the front feather grow back, now isn't that option. 
Well it now seems to rain here all day every Thursday (I'm getting lots of housework done 
)
Friday dry but it looked a bit ominous, so I decided to have a short hack. About 20 minutes in it started spitting but it was still bright so I carried on. Then 30 minutes in it started hailing! I got back like a drowned rat and Harvey wasn't too impressed either
Saturday was a nice hack with K. We went on a route that is rare for us and found they had cut down hundreds of trees so now there is a view
Sunday was a hack on my own - everything still sodden so staying on the roads.
An unexpected view
Hacking
13 miles
4 hours
Totals
Hacking
113 miles
33 hours 45
Schooling
1 hour 35
)Friday dry but it looked a bit ominous, so I decided to have a short hack. About 20 minutes in it started spitting but it was still bright so I carried on. Then 30 minutes in it started hailing! I got back like a drowned rat and Harvey wasn't too impressed either
Saturday was a nice hack with K. We went on a route that is rare for us and found they had cut down hundreds of trees so now there is a view
Sunday was a hack on my own - everything still sodden so staying on the roads.
An unexpected view
Hacking
13 miles
4 hours
Totals
Hacking
113 miles
33 hours 45
Schooling
1 hour 35
Back out again and dare I say we had that yellow thing again.
Sunshine ☀ yay.
Opened up the track so she could nibble while I got her stuff. Then got her ready while she was still nibbling. Somewhere I dropped a brush, may find that next year
Excuse the idiot that still can't put the noseband on property. We set off without it done up as it's impossible to do up when someone is still chewing. If I plan to let her nibble anyway I don't need it, so may just put the cavesson back on.
Ps does anyone want to guess what type of water comes out of the pipe and goes into the drain.
I am curious if it's an underground spring that's someone has piped out of their garden, or it's the run of from the hill and as it reaches to come out there, it's being directed.
Pps, check out the no mud no puddle gateway and my wellies. (hand me a trumpet
so I can blow it)
Sunshine ☀ yay.
Opened up the track so she could nibble while I got her stuff. Then got her ready while she was still nibbling. Somewhere I dropped a brush, may find that next year
Excuse the idiot that still can't put the noseband on property. We set off without it done up as it's impossible to do up when someone is still chewing. If I plan to let her nibble anyway I don't need it, so may just put the cavesson back on.
Ps does anyone want to guess what type of water comes out of the pipe and goes into the drain.
I am curious if it's an underground spring that's someone has piped out of their garden, or it's the run of from the hill and as it reaches to come out there, it's being directed.
Pps, check out the no mud no puddle gateway and my wellies. (hand me a trumpet
so I can blow it) 
I tried a walk out yesterday, thinking we'd be OK, despite the wind - big nope. We only got 10 mins in and turned back - he was fine, but the gusts were terrifying - I really felt vulnerable. Fast forward to today, I arrived at the gate, he took one look at me, rolled about 50 times, leapt up, bucked, farted and galloped round the paddock 3 times. We went out, and he was wired - I think the grass is definitely coming through, he was silly alert, and letting me know the devil was present.
Yesterday was dry but with a bitter Northwesterly wind, so blustery that we lost power (again) because a tree branch fell on the power lines. I didn't feel like riding in that.
I went out today instead and had such a lovely ride. It was short, only just an hour, but after his usual slow start Sid decided to be Speedy Gonzales when we got to the Heath, and because he was acting so chipper we turned up the gallops. We didn't gallop, but it was a very fast canter on the nice soft verge, for what must have been a shade over half a mile. I didn't have to click him on at all! He was happy to ease up when I asked, but asked to go again on a sandy spot so that he could skip over a little log.
I have just the biggest grin on my face thinking about it. All that speed and when we weren't cantering we were sauntering along on the buckle end. The best horse.
I went out today instead and had such a lovely ride. It was short, only just an hour, but after his usual slow start Sid decided to be Speedy Gonzales when we got to the Heath, and because he was acting so chipper we turned up the gallops. We didn't gallop, but it was a very fast canter on the nice soft verge, for what must have been a shade over half a mile. I didn't have to click him on at all! He was happy to ease up when I asked, but asked to go again on a sandy spot so that he could skip over a little log.
I have just the biggest grin on my face thinking about it. All that speed and when we weren't cantering we were sauntering along on the buckle end. The best horse.
Took her to the farrier, that counts as hacking right.
She got to say hello to the other horses - okay two boys said hello to her she just looked.
Her hooves are "looking good"
I will look at the sole depth tomorrow as he's just started taking the excess off the sole. I have a "proper" ruler now lol.
She got to say hello to the other horses - okay two boys said hello to her she just looked.
Her hooves are "looking good"
I will look at the sole depth tomorrow as he's just started taking the excess off the sole. I have a "proper" ruler now lol.
Trying and failing to tire out the energiser bunny. Or it is Tigger 
. He should not be as fit as he is. 3.8 miles at average 4.5 mph (with only a short trot) in less than 50mins up a steep long hill and he still bounces back into the yard freshed faced and ready to go in again. (Please ignore the strip on unclipped hair beside his man's )
. He should not be as fit as he is. 3.8 miles at average 4.5 mph (with only a short trot) in less than 50mins up a steep long hill and he still bounces back into the yard freshed faced and ready to go in again. (Please ignore the strip on unclipped hair beside his man's )
Along with "no I will not stand still just for you to take a pic"
It's sure gone nippy out there today., I have my wooly hat on. Managed to miss the rain.
Check out that big hoof print. Who lives here
Found some Sping flowers in the sheltered spots.
Check out that big hoof print. Who lives here
Found some Sping flowers in the sheltered spots.
Rode out yesterday, nice and uneventful, though I can still feel the grass demon trying to tempt him into misbehaviour. Walked out today for a change as we haven't done it for a while.
Its seems to have been raining forever now, but at least it didn't rain on Thursday this week. I went for a hack round the local bridleway which left poor Harvey looking like a mud monster. On Friday I thought I would have a short hack to dodge the rain but I failed and it hailed on me (again!). On Saturday I managed to get back from a short hack just before rain set in for the rest of the day.
On Sunday I treated myself to a trip to the Wyre forest and had a nice amble around the short (6 mile) route
A rare view through the forest - won't be long before its all green again
Hacking
15 miles
4 hours hours
Totals
Hacking
128 miles
37 hours 45
Schooling
1 hour 35
On Sunday I treated myself to a trip to the Wyre forest and had a nice amble around the short (6 mile) route
A rare view through the forest - won't be long before its all green again
Hacking
15 miles
4 hours hours
Totals
Hacking
128 miles
37 hours 45
Schooling
1 hour 35
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