August 2017 - Blenheim here we come!

February 2017 - the fun begins!

Tam and Beau's Haynet Blog February 2017 – You’ve got to have a dream… Hello Haynet community! To start, I’d like to introduce me and my little horse Beau. I am average, at everything. If you take one thing from following this blog please let it be that averageness shouldn’t stop you trying new things and giving it a go – it doesn’t stop me! Beau is not average, he is an opinionated grumpy old thing, and a total legend. I have thrown so much at him in the 18 months we’ve been a team, and he has gone along with it all In 2016 we played at dressage training, Team Quest, quadrille training and competition, sidesaddle, gymkhana games, a spot of jumping, Riding Club camps, Your Horse Live and lots of relaxed hacking. Horses are my spiritual home, and always have been even though I’ve struggled with confidence and motivation quite a lot over the last few years. Beau is my therapy There is not much to share on our activities this mo...

Comfort Gut Standard, Pro and Ultimate. Miracle panacea?

Of our 4 horses 3 of them needed a boost of some kind or another. Beau had ulcers in his youth, Parker is a stress-head and Stella is a busybody who loses confidence in stress situations I read that once a horse has had ulcers, they either always have them or always have the risk of recurrence. Beau has always shown irritation when being girthed up. I always do it gradually and only as tight as it needs to be which is really important, especially if the girth has elastic inserts. It's hard to tell whether that's just his grumpiness (he likes his own space best) or discomfort, but I decided not to take a chance and started him on Comfort Gut Parker is a big stressy juggernaut. Most days he is fine and relaxed and settled. However some days he worries if Beau is not in eye-shot, or if he is in eye-shot. He worries if someone else is being exercised, or if nobody is being exercised! His droppings have a tendency to a pat-like consistency,...

Later in April 2017 - Flopjogs and Jumpies

Beau Bayou Blog - Later in April 2017 Flopjogs, jumpies, Easter Eggs and finally graduating from 'Terminally Terrified' Combined Training Qualifier This has to have been Beau's favourite month with me so far! We've been jump training with Alison to try and get my head round the whole jumping thing ready for the combined training qualifier on 9th April. My issue has never been with the actual jumping, but for some reason cantering round a course of jumps was filling me with terror. So we went right back to basics and used trot/canter poles, and small jumps at trot. We then graduated to jumps fro trot with no poles, and finally hired a small course at Glebe Farm in Northants to attempt jumping more than one fence. Beau loves his jumping. Lots. In fact he loves it so much he once finished an arena eventing course after his jockey fell off at fence 3! He is also very soft in the mouth, but strong, so bitting has been a challenge. ...

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