rebrascora
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Basically I had his shoes taken off just before Xmas a year ago as I find it difficult to exercise them all during the winter and he needs shoes whereas Reb and MeMe don't but I get almost no wear out of them so it is a waste of money and his hooves improve enormously if I give him the winter off... Then the pandemic hit and I decided that it would be foolhardy to risk a fall and injury when the NHS was so overwhelmed... and also having no one to ride out with made it even more risky.. I know these things still apply but I had also just had a fall from one of Ian's horses just after lockdown which I was lucky not to break my hip, so it made me more circumspect. Since my relationship breakdown I have reassessed things and decided that life is for living and my horses are getting older and so am I (Rebel will be 25 this summer and Rasc 24yrs... although he will be a juvenile delinquent until the day he dies....) so I just decided to bite the bullet, particularly as I was making good progress with Rebel. When I first bought them Rebel was a year old and Rascal was just 3 days old ... obviously still with his mother) and it was my ambition to drive them as a pair because they are well matched. I have still not achieved that and time is running out, so bringing them back into work, even though ridden at the moment is a start towards that goal..... it's kind of like a bucket list item. I have the harness and the vehicle, I just need to square them up!
Turned my wardrobe over for my Sticky Bum jodhs but could not lay hands on them, so had to manage without!... I mean with regular ones... I wasn't tempted to do the lady Godiva thing suggested a few weeks ago! 😉 😱
Basically I had his shoes taken off just before Xmas a year ago as I find it difficult to exercise them all during the winter and he needs shoes whereas Reb and MeMe don't but I get almost no wear out of them so it is a waste of money and his hooves improve enormously if I give him the winter off... Then the pandemic hit and I decided that it would be foolhardy to risk a fall and injury when the NHS was so overwhelmed... and also having no one to ride out with made it even more risky.. I know these things still apply but I had also just had a fall from one of Ian's horses just after lockdown which I was lucky not to break my hip, so it made me more circumspect. Since my relationship breakdown I have reassessed things and decided that life is for living and my horses are getting older and so am I (Rebel will be 25 this summer and Rasc 24yrs... although he will be a juvenile delinquent until the day he dies....) so I just decided to bite the bullet, particularly as I was making good progress with Rebel. When I first bought them Rebel was a year old and Rascal was just 3 days old ... obviously still with his mother) and it was my ambition to drive them as a pair because they are well matched. I have still not achieved that and time is running out, so bringing them back into work, even though ridden at the moment is a start towards that goal..... it's kind of like a bucket list item. I have the harness and the vehicle, I just need to square them up!
Turned my wardrobe over for my Sticky Bum jodhs but could not lay hands on them, so had to manage without!... I mean with regular ones... I wasn't tempted to do the lady Godiva thing suggested a few weeks ago! 😉 😱