Picture of the day

Some video

Hello World, and who else might be reading ;)

I feel like sharing some video from the training the other day, so here goes. We still have a lot of stuff to work on, my seat, how I hold my hands, how I look down in her neck instead of up etc... a For Dulle-horse it is strengthening her left side, as you can see in the video, it is her weaker side, making her more relaxed, working with her entire body and not go to deep on the bridle, but with an amateur rider and young horse, it is a work in progress ;)

I intially thought to not share the videos with anyone but myself, but then I thought, what the heck, maybe someone else will find it interesting, and also to see the progress in the future :)

Well enough excuses here are the videos:

Pictures from the training today

Tess says hello

These days of January has passed pretty uneventful, since the weather has not been good enough to use the outdoor paddock. Have only been able to have her out exercising twice, which is pretty boring. There is pretty much ice everywhere, and even with the spikes in her shoes, it is too slippery. Looking into moving her somewhere with an indoors arena, so we can get to properly train again. It is just a shame, because I really like the stables I currently have her at, and the people there. But sometimes you have to make some more difficult choices... I can't wait to start riding again.

Dealing with an injured horse.......

Well, since Tess has that big ugly wound on her front leg, which I am waiting to heal. She is currently standing in the little paddock, without the other horses, she is very bored and has alot of energy. The vet instructed for her not to be left out in the paddock with the other horses before the wound is healed more, since it is too risky with all the mud and the wound needs time so it doesnt remain open.

I have been taking her out on the riding field, to burn off energy, but she seemed abit bored. Since she has been behaving very nicely, I last week decided to ride her in walk only, since she is not lame or seem to be bothered too much by the injury. This went fine, but she was abit "on her feet". A few days later, she wanted to trot abit under me, and I thought "why not, then she can burn off some more energy"- BAD IDEA. To say the least. I got the full rodeo experience and got thrown off quite forcefully, I then went in to get the rope and let her run around me a little, and then she did it again.... So I decided to listen to her, and give her some more time off. I dont know if it was just too much energy, or if maybe the injury bothered her somehow, but now she has had some more time off, and just been in the riding field to burn off energy on her own.

I tried walking her  by hand the other day, and then she decided she was the "new black stallion" standing on her behind legs with her front legs kicking in the air. Lets just say I was thinking "eeeh is THIS my horse?!" and "what the hell!". She was not my favorite horse in the world after these incidents.

Talked to the breeder, and she hasnt done these kind of "neat little tricks" before, but then again, this is the first time she has been injured. Which sucks, to say the least. But we are looking forward to the future, and hopefully she will return to her usual, sweet self, without anymore bucking, or black stallion moves :)

(Tess being annoyed im taking pictures)

(She can look cute again though)

Last night in the paddock

my new horse is a little piglet ;)

Ofcourse she took a roll in the biggest pool of mud she could find :) This is her first day out in her new home.

Getting ready for transport :)

Now we are just waiting for friday, the day when she will finally arrive to me in Sweden :)

My new horse!

Finally, after several big bumps in the road towards this goal. I can once again call myself a horse owner!

She is a 5 year old danish warmblood mare after Tailormade Temptation, with damsire May Sherif.

I think she will turn out to be an amazing dressage horse, and have very high hopes for her :)

I havent gotten her home yet, but hopefully she will pass the vet check and I will get her home the 1st of november! (been a long wait, since I agreed to buy her in July!)

May I present my new horse, Tessie(it is not me riding her on the pictures or in the video):

The reason I had to wait for her is because she had gotten an injury that needed to heal, which was really unlucky and unfortunate. But since she is the horse I wanted, I decided I was willing to wait for her to heal up. But now she is finally mine, and I cant wait to share my adventures with her :)