Getting there slowly

It's 2014 and everything is coming together slowly.  Unfortunately we've not had much to write about the last couple of months as the days have been quite repetitive, mainly consisting of in hand walking twice a day!  Picnic has just been spending time out in the field and not in work and Lara has not had much time dedicated to her due to only seeing her in the dark.

Now it's going to be all systems go.  Picnic is going to be brought back into light work and see how she goes after having some time off, the ringbone looks to have settled down and she is now sound again so time will tell as to how much work she can return back to.  Picnic has retired from competition but I am hoping she can still enjoy being ridden for a few more years yet as she has not taken to retirement getting bored and can be a little bit of a handful!

Socks is now in ridden work and we are increasing her trot work every week so by the end of the month we can start to introduce canter.  It has been a long slog doing the In Hand walking with all the wet weather and the dark evenings but I have to say she has been very good at working in the dark to fit in two sessions a day!

Lara is a real sweetie but I have felt very guilty that we haven't progressed as quickly as I'd hoped, but with socks rehab programme and work getting in the way we just keep running out of daylight.

So hopefully 2014 will bring a more successful year with more ups than downs with healthy, happy horses!