Post by NFK Dumpling on Oct 7, 2016 20:27:51 GMT -1
At the age of at least 27yrs, and after a quick discussion with the vet who'd come to vacinate him, I won't be riding James again.
However, he will still be doing his bit of therapy with his young friend
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my friend Sarah is lending me a driving bridle with blinkers to see how he goes longreining in it with a view to driving him in a lightweight exercise trolley. Odd how these things happen; I happened to be talking to someone at work, while we were waiting for someone else to turn up, who had bought a couple of exercise trolleys as he'd decided he'd like to give it a go, one of the trolleys is a bit too high for his 12.2hh pony so I can borrow it to see if it fits James
who has shrunk a bit from his original 14.1hh.
He'd been driven before I had him, probably some 19yrs ago, but he's always been good longreining (unlike the few occasions I tried lunging him!)so we may make it into the trolley, otherwise we'll stick with the longreining. The vet thought it was very amusing when I confessed that the reason I don't just lead him out for a walk is that he'll give my backside a quick nip if I get ahead of him. She thought either longreining him or driving him was an excellent idea.
He's been in his element while Lindsay's two girls have staying althought he just had to make sure they understood who's in charge up the field (not me!). They make a bit of fuss when he goes out for an hour but nobody bothers when Musk is gone all day.....at least Musk has stopped screaming "What about me!?" when I stop to speak to them on the way past.
However, he will still be doing his bit of therapy with his young friend
and
my friend Sarah is lending me a driving bridle with blinkers to see how he goes longreining in it with a view to driving him in a lightweight exercise trolley. Odd how these things happen; I happened to be talking to someone at work, while we were waiting for someone else to turn up, who had bought a couple of exercise trolleys as he'd decided he'd like to give it a go, one of the trolleys is a bit too high for his 12.2hh pony so I can borrow it to see if it fits James
who has shrunk a bit from his original 14.1hh.He'd been driven before I had him, probably some 19yrs ago, but he's always been good longreining (unlike the few occasions I tried lunging him!)so we may make it into the trolley, otherwise we'll stick with the longreining. The vet thought it was very amusing when I confessed that the reason I don't just lead him out for a walk is that he'll give my backside a quick nip if I get ahead of him. She thought either longreining him or driving him was an excellent idea.
He's been in his element while Lindsay's two girls have staying althought he just had to make sure they understood who's in charge up the field (not me!). They make a bit of fuss when he goes out for an hour but nobody bothers when Musk is gone all day.....at least Musk has stopped screaming "What about me!?" when I stop to speak to them on the way past.
It wouldn't have been so bad if they were my roses....... He also seemed to think that "stand" doesn't mean stand if I'm not sitting on him, although he's always been a fidget bottom. I think we'll be doing an awful lot of longreining before we get near the trolley!
Congratulations to James for retiring at 27 from riding! That's really impressive!