Friday 23rd May

Today before I left for the weekend, I went out and played with Blossom – I started with showing a friend who is interested in starting Parelli me playing the seven games with Blossom. I just played on the 12ft line to keep it simple, it was so strange using the shorter rope again. To think not that long ago I was all tangled up in the rope and never imagined myself being able to play with a 22ft line!!

All the games went extremely well and I had a really good focus from Blossom, so she gave an excellent demo of what the seven games look like!

I then moved on and played with her on the 22ft line, starting with yo yo game I had to do a little approach and retreat to gain her confidence at some points. But overall she was really good. We then moved on to playing with transitions on line, she really seems to have got the hang of this especially the walk, trot transitions – she still appears to be unconfident in canter which I think causes her to either speed up or come to an abrupt halt.. So that’s something we will need to work on more and will also helps us more with the ridden tasks.

We then played with change of direction for a little bit mainly just in walk and a slow trot to try and make sure I was in the correct position and also to help Blossom gain her confidence. Still a lot of work needed here..

I then had to go and get the other ponies ready for going away so I just took Blossom’s halter off her in the field and to my surprise she stuck to me!! So we then ended up playing a great game of stick to me in the open field, I didn’t think we were ready for this yet but it just goes to show!! I was so excited and nobody even seen us!!