Thursday 29th May

Tonight I went out and played with Blossom, I haven’t very much with her this week as I have a new pony on trial so I have been trying her out.

Well what an amazing night I had!! We started off with just playing with all the games and really trying to put more work into change of direction, as this still really needs work. I think my position is still wrong and I think she thinks I am asking her to disengage instead of coming into me – Really got a lot of thinking to do on this one…

We then played stick to me on line and it was going really well so I decided to give it a go at liberty again. We managed walk, trot, stop, back up all really well. But then I put just a little bit too much pressure on her and she left me and ran down to the field gate, so I heading down closer to her and got her attention and managed to draw her back to me and the played loads of friendly game. The lady who lives in the house next to the ponies field then came out so I stood talking to her and again Blossom left, think she got bored from our chat! She must have walk off to at least half way up the field, the lady then asked would I be able to get her to come back to me from there? I said I doubt it I think I will need to go and get her, but much to me surprise all I done was shouted on her and slapped the ground with the carrot stick a couple of time and too my amazement she turned round and look at me with both eyes and trotted straight too me without any hesitation!! Wow I didn’t expect that and it was the best feeling ever watching her running to me.