Horses roaming the meadows

Our friend Adrian and his mother has borrowed our meadows above Nant y Coy to place four of their highland breed horses for a few months to rest their fields.

There is something magical about having them there, it brings the landscape to life somehow.

Lessons 7

I've finally had a chance to catch up on my blogging!

Lesson 7 (last week) was great, with a change in the regular school riding work to make the most of the warmer weather my instructor took me out for a hack.

We did a little road work heading down to a quiet lane near the riding school, and then heading off across the cross country training field.

We kept a steady walking pace, challenging the balance as Lyric went up and down hills.

We made our way back to the riding school in a rising trot.

I managed to dismount without falling!


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She's not a horse but this is Teacup

When we turned up at our old Tea Factory in Pembroke Dock one day at the start of June 2010 we found someone had left this poor little scruffy puppy outside. We took her in dried the rain off her and gave her some food. After three weeks of working with Radio Pembrokeshire and the local Dog Warden we had no luck in finding her owners so we adopted her.

She's mischievous and wonderful, and very VERY friendly. She's often found playing with her friend Gem, our Retired Greyhound in the nature valley behind the mill, where she seems to always end up in the stream having fun.

You can follow Teacup on twitter @pembteacup

Just back from riding Troy.

Just back from South Pembrokeshire meeting Troy with Amy and Kate.

He's a lovely horse, well mannered and a great personality. After seeing him out hacking he was a slow, careful and friendly, Kate and I were impressed.

Once we had him in the School ring he livened up -a little too much perhaps-, as he got very excited trotting and cantering. Kate and I both felt he was perhaps a little too much horse while in the schooling ring. Kate enjoyed the lively ride, as she cantered around, I stuck to a rather controlled walking pace, although tempted to try a trot pace, I thought he was too excitable in the schooling ring.

Amy's suggested I try him trotting out on the field as he better behaved when hacking out. I'll have a think about it and speak to her soon.

MOST IMPORTANT THOUGH! I did three dismounts without falling off and without any bruising!

Thanks to Kate for the great advice and testing him with me.