Jumpies :)

I thought we'd never ever jump, but hell we did xD

He's not the most push button jumper ever but if you ride him into it properly he's got quite a pop on him. He has a slightly strange habit of jumping the bigger part of cross-poles.

Nice ^^

We didn't get any video or pictures unfortunatly :( But next time I'll try and get some. It was late, we were running out of time and yeah.

On the other hand, he's finally got the hang of a consistant outline in walk and trot. Not much leaning anymore and he's just generally getting better and better everyday.

Short update, but I'm trying to get all my blogs up to date hehe :)

We're on the bit!

Woo! We were in Pink and schooled AMAZINGLY.

I'm so please :D

I also got lots of pictures ^^

 I thought I'd try out a quiff on him :D

 Beanbag says Hai!

 

Pink!

 He looks a bit big here :S

 Overbent, but atleast he's not hollow :)

 Quiff!

This is definitely one of the best co-ords. I'm not pink obsessed (even though I've got pink fluffy headphones, pink iPod, pink piggybank and a pink camera) unfact my favourite colour is blue. But, he really suits it!

I'm going to buy a Baby Pink numnah, some sparklies and finish off the set :D Might make a nice Baby Pink and White browband too.

Obviously, I'm going to do a Baby Blue set first. As much as he suits pink, he suits blue better :)

Schooling 17th November 2010

Yeah huh, we schooled ^^ Something we'll be doing a lot of until he actually manages to come round.

-.- Silly pony.

On the other hand, the colour I picked out out for him seems to work really well. 

Our colours are Cornflower Blue (Baby Blue) and White

May see what Baby Blue and Cream looks like :)

Anyway, piccies!

 

Ahahh xD He's looks a bit like a RS pony from this angle.

 

Hate my arms :X

 

Fail, sorta, extension :D

 

 

Stupid blurry non-self-focusing camera :(

 

But, we got a nice canter!

 

Then went back to our RS type Walk/Trot

 

Walking off

 

...and he looked nice for a bit.

 

Good pony :)

So, that's it.

I want to get a lot of training done with him through the Winter. I'm tempted to change his bit to see if that helps.

I'm in love with those polos though, I found them in my locker and funnily enough used to use them on my old veteran/jumping pony. I guess baby blue has always been my colour :)

We're going to try and line up a W/T test at Quainton Stud (via Aylesbury Vale Dressage Group) soon.

My memory for Dressage tests is so, so crap. I mean, I get past "Go down center line, track right......" and that's it, my mind goes blank :|

Well, I'll try anyway ^^

Unfortunatly, there wont be anymore video updates for a while since my video editing program has gone poof. 

The trial ran out o_o

So, until I buy it, which definitely wont be till after my Germany trip, there will only be pictures.

I'm pleased anyway plus, he got two swanky new rugs :D

 

But he ripped this one in 2 days...

 

..and hasn't destroyed this one yet.

-.- everyday I don't see him, Mother comes home and starts the conversation with "Guess what some little arse did today."

Q-Q 

I know that translates to "Oh, Kao just crapped over about £200 of your money."

We Lunged!

Yes, we did :) and he was amazing.

So, we're going to doing a lot more stuff since he's clipped. Hopefully we'll be able to get to a Walk & Trot test.

Not a massive ambition but hey, it's something :)

This isn't a massive update but we basically got clipped and lunged the proper way (with thanks to the German Doppellonge tutorial videos I found on youtube).

But here's the finished Kao:

He's looking pretty damn awesome if I do say so myself :)

I Didn't Get a Video, But...

...we clipped! :D

The unclippable hath been shaved completely.

I got some video of that if it's any consolation? But anyway ours plans...

I wanted to type this up so you don't think I'm just some douche who updates on a horse that doesn't do anything -.-

Our aims for this year are:

• Decent, collected W/T/C around the arena, on the bit.
• Go Hunting! :D 
• Start jumping.
• Do a Walk & Trot test.
• Practice Prelim tests at home.
• Lunge in a "Doppelonge"...I'm not sure, but I think it's a roller with two lines, it's badass either way.

I'll also add this little list to the side bar over there ---->

I love my lists.

Anyway. Kao hadn't woken up from the dope (I'm contemplating taking that stuff myself, the fact I update my blogs at 2am every morning even though I have to get up at 7.30am tells me something...) so it was difficult to get pictures.

I got some on my phone but as you can see the quality is pretty crappy :/

I really do need to bath him. 

Me and Mum were itchy, but  can't bare to think how itchy he must be o_o

Warm water and a bubblegum shampoo me thinks.

Oh and...I plan on sticking that hairdye on him too. So, fingers crossed that'll stay in for more than a week.

Mum was planning on going Show Jumping tomorrow. But I'm getting up earlier to bath him incase we do go I want to pootle around the warm-up before anyone else get's there.

Eeh, I need sleep xD

Pictures and videos are promised though tomorrow :)

Resolved Selling Woe's and Capt'n Kao!

I got the hacking video :)

Yeah, mwahaha!

And that isn't even my latest attempt, oh no. Today we had a jolly muesli filled Bean Bag, a Ham who fell on his face and a ginger stick.

In gale force winds, pouring with rain, home time for the local *and might I add very full* primary school plus mothers with umbrellas.

Yum.

Long story short, he didn't flip out (I thought he might bust a ball with the umbrellas, even the bombproof ponies can surprise you). Stan wouldn't go past them and Ham, well, he was too busy losing weight at the back to worry about anything else. So it was up to Capt'n Kao Bag to lead everyone to safety.

He did so, very well, with no spookage :)

He's being clipped tomorrow :S

We're going to attempt it again, the vet sent us some sedative stronger than Sedeline but lighter than the dope injection so fingers crossed it works.

I put him up on horsemart last night :/ I've had a lot of enquiries about him but I really don't think I'm doing the right thing, at all.

I've been offered swaps, part exchanges, everything and some how, for some reason turned them all down.

Stuck, severely. I wanted to hunt him through the Winter and start on his jumping work soon, we've established a really good W/T/C and I said as soon as he gets that we can start jumping.

My aunt had a good idea to keep him on for another 6months - 1 year and see how it goes. Where ever I work in Germany there will always be placement for 1 horse and my idea was to buy a horse out there but really, it's taken me 14 years to be able to bond with a horse almost instantly and it seems stupid to give up now.

Eeh :|

Anyway, here's some pictures of him from today.

Bean Bag got his own stable tonight :)

With Stan.

His other funky eye! The other one is a 1/2 Halo and this is a 1/3 Halo.

He's pretty unique :)

Will DEFINITELY get a video tomorrow!