A month has passed since my last up date. Time seems to go just so fast when you are having fun. I have lots of fun with my horses and their training is going great.
First up we have Isa, my dear little princess. What has she changed! When I started working with her during the summer, I had a horse that had a catback, didn’t want to move, we had a horrible trot, no canter. And now she has changed, she can do an incredible (at least for her) on the lungeline, she can do a trot with some longer stride, and her walk, oh she can do an incredible walk now. After a lot of training, last friday we passed the groundwork and lungeing test for Bent and so have now fullfilled half of the squiretest. So now we are done with Isa’s least favorite part of training, the lungeing. We will focus more on the riding now which she prefers the most.
I am the lucky person of not only training one horse, but more horses. So Amistosa I have also been training together since the summer. She has this awesome personality, that I adore. But her body doesn’t always agree. She has a lot of body issues, and making her lose in the spine and especially the lumbar region is not easy. Luckily Maria knows a top physiotherapist, and she is now helping us. The first session was 2 weeks ago, and we discovered she had no movement in her SI-joint, and also her hole head was blocked. We worked on the head first. And what a difference it made! After the session the next day, she allowed me to touch her head and touch her everywhere! And even her movements got a lot better, she can move her spine better and she doesn’t tilt her head anymore. So last week we had the second session with Freja. This time we worked on the movement in her SI-joint, which was already better then the week before. As she has kissing spines, there will never be a lot of motion, but we can loosen up the muscles so she feels better and can move better. So lets see what happens the coming weeks.
And the we have the lovely youngster, Woodie. Oh what a clumpsy sweetheart. he is about 3,5 years old now, and we are training together so that by summer we may be starting to ride him. but first some more preparations form ground so he knows what we are asking when we go sitting on top of him. He can already park and knows the voice cues quiet well. He is such a sweetheart!
Next to that I also go and spent some time in without the horses here. allthough it is always nice when there are horses involved. That happens when you are a horse addict.