First of all, I had to catch him! I honestly thought he was gonna be a little monkey but he was actually way better than expected! I went up to him a couple of times and he ran off but after a carrot and some love, he decided I wasn't that bad after all and was actually quite nice and so I was able to catch him! He lead up to the stable block excellently as I did expect because he's such a chilled lad just walking around. However, he did take quite a while to come into the stable, a good 20 minutes it must have been but I don't expect him to trust everything I ask of him and personally, that was nothing that bothered me as in the end he walked straight in, absolutely fine.
Once he was in, he had some dinner and just chilled for a bit and I gave him a good groom:) After I'd made him look at least a little decent (after having rolled in the mud with no rug on after it had been raining) I took him back out! He was a little bargey on the way out the stable but nothing nasty, he stops as soon as he gets out and does really respect when you tell him to stand and wait. He then went out to have a nice time grazing, which is probably his favourite part of the day if I'm honest, typical welsh!
Anyway, today (12/05/14) John had his first ride at home!
He came in at around lunch time to dry off for an hour while the team went and sorted the other gingers out, and he was a little spooky at the gate when he came out but again, he ran out and stopped afterwards and waited for me to get there lol, he again walked up to the stable block again perfectly! He came to the stable and again had a look and think about it but within 5 minutes, he was in with a tiny bit of help from the team! We then left him and came back in the afternoon to ride him! So when we came back up, he was an absolute star, he was so polite to groom tack up and coming out of the stable, which was so lovely to see as Emma did some of it with me and he was so cool about it, he genuinely was so polite and kind about everything.
When we got in the school, I gave him a walk around to check it all out, especially the jumps as they're all different colours and of course, super scary! Emma then lunged him for me as she really is the goddess of lunging, I don't know how someone can be that awesome at it lol. After he had lunged well on both reins, I got on. He was a tad nervous to begin with but after a lot of walking and encouragement he relaxed a lot. (may I add the whole time I was riding, work was going on on the farm so he was a bit spooky) He walked past the unit where the work was going on quite a few times and to see the change in him from when I got on to when I was finished, I was so proud. He may be my first young horse, but god do I see a bright future ahead for this horse. I realise he wasn't perfect to most people but he really did do me proud with that. I was so happy when he walked past the unit perfectly, I finished and got off.
He then got an oreo as a treat which it's safe to say he loved and then he went into his stable foot perfect first time and was such a gentleman to un-tack He was so good in fact that I decided to jump on bareback and have a cuddle, which he had no problems about and I'm sure he loved. Emma then brushed him, while I was still on, and then I got off and we turned him out! Again, he was so polite and well mannered to come out the stable and was even more chilled to lead out as Emma took him and had a cuddle.
He got to the gate of the field and again had a little bit of a moment at it, he's getting so much better though and then went off to graze for the evening.
Safe to say I'm very proud of my little man after tonight, he really does make me laugh.
He makes me look so small, I don't understand!
He really likes oreos apparently!
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