#Groundwork

[cocoabuttavasa]

Aché 🧘🏾‍♀️

[aashiyancha]

He wasn't expecting Ares to actually react to the flowers

[artistically-free]

Coffee & poetry.

I thought this looked cool. I was trying to think of a name for the blog and was trying to figure out synonyms.

I’m dumb.

[griffinequestrian]

I’ve been putting Finley, my barn bestie’s 4-year-old Irish sport horse mare back to work after having most of the summer off. Her owner is in Paris watching the Olympics right now, but when she gets back it’s time to seriously prepare for a USEA Young Event Horse trials in Ocala in August.

[brokenonyxestate]

Lunging and Groundwork

Today began with some lunging instructed by me, performed by Kismet and Nikolette. Kismet came to us after the old owner couldn't keep him anymore, and as we have bred him we were only happy to take him back. Right now we are schooling him, so he can get a small rider at some point. He is a good boy, but has a lot of energy.

And as you can see on this picture, he might have too much energy - today at least xD He just ran and ran around and around for a while, before Nikolette got him cooled down enough to let him loose.

Which she did. He started bucking and kicking for a while, and then he was able to trot nicely again. He ran and bucked for quite a while though, as he can't run much in the pasture at the moment, as it's quite slippery from the ice and snow, so he really seemed to need a good galop!

When he has used the excess energy Nikolette was able to bring him back into the lunge, and give him some more schooling. After that I left Niko to her own devices, and left the indoor arena to go get another horse who needed training.

This is baby Cisco. He has just been taken from his mother at 7 months old, and brought into one of the too male pastures along with young Captain and the experienced and much older Rico. He seems to really have taken to Captain - who is roughly 1.5 years older than he is. And while Cisco has taken to Captain, Captain has really taken to Rico, whom he leans against if he gets unsure of anything.

When I called all three came running towards me, and I was able to snap this pretty, snowy picture! I am really adoring Cisco's colour against both his new blanket and the snow. He is a lovely boy!

And so I brought him directly to the arena. Nikolette was walking around with Kismet in short leadrope for a few minutes before she left the arena to Cisco and I.

Pulling off his blanket I did some light groundwork with him. Mostly moving forward and backwards by light pressure. He did a very good job he did!

Then I let him loose in the arena for a while. He enjoyed stretching his legs a lot, and switched between canter and galop time and time again. He is a lovely little lad, and I snapped a few pretty pictures!

He seemed slightly spooked though when Calypso entered the arena, and I had to speak softly to him to get him back on the lead, so I could put the blanket on him again and then lead him to the pasture.

He was able to shake of the anxiety fairly quickly though, so I am sure that with training he will end up not reacting to that at all!

FEATURING: BOE Cisco, BOE Kismet's Keener, Hera Cole, Nikolette Anderson, BOE Enrico & BOE Captain

TAGS: Luna BlueLake

[pensieveprose]

just started reading Loaded March by Footloose and shit its so good??? I’ve just come to part 8 of the series, Groundwork, and bro im so hyped to see how everyone will react to Merlin having magic!!! also how many parts does this have? every part i read i think it’s going to be the last and then I’m pleasantly surprised it’s not lmao

If you haven’t read the series yet you really should because damn it’s sososo good!!

[akhuna01]

This week was all about steering and gymnastics 😄. Talisi was curious and motivated, like always, and I feel like we both learned a lot.

[christambeh]

Scratch coated and ready 👌

[bestfuckinmusic]

Groundwork - Living in Fear 7″ - 1993

Excellent, old-school emo.

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[griffinequestrian]

Two minutes of working Mikey on the ground. We’re limited in what we can do of course, while that fracture is healing. But I’m trying to keep his mind occupied so I have less of a feral version of him to handle when it’s time to go back to work!

[thegreenhorseman]

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[akhuna01]

Talisi ❤. She's truly my soul horse. We're both disabled and not instagram models, but we fit together perfectly, and take eachother as we are. There is so much trust, from me to her, and from her to me. It's wonderful.

[christambeh]

And it begins 💪💪💪

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