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| me and Garbo chillin at home |
Today I went to the beach sans Garbo. I had some friends from Tahiti here in NZ who had a 13 year old horse mad daughter and at a BBQ at our place she spent 90% of the time with the horses in the paddock. She speaks only a little English but we got on well and I gave her some Parelli mags to take back to their apartment while she was here.
So I organized a Horse ride with her and my other mutual friend and her son....4 of us so easier to book in at a riding place that does it all the time.... along the beach and in the forest.
Sadly my friend fell off and landed on a Toi Toi bush....sprained her ankle and ripped her fingernail, about 3/4 of the way round. But before that (I had a standardbred - which here is the name for a trotter/pacer) we had some great trots and canters.... one especially that I loved heading towards the beach. I got slapped in the smile with a too too though!
The other day I went to Waimarie with Maraschino and Garbo - first time I have taken both of them out for quite a while.... but Maraschino loaded like a dream...and he just had a ball.
Michelle worked him while I rode her Warmblood Flippa, and then I ponied Maraschino from Flippa, did follow the rail and he soon got the hang of it. (Flippa is the same age).
Then after that I got Garbo and Flippa and Maraschino were able to groom each other - first time in a while Maraschino has had a large horse groom him - Coco can only ever reach his shoulder!
So they hung out in the pen while I rode Garbo and Michelle rode Tama... Tama is her newest started baby.... he's 3 I think.... anyway he was so good and showed foal behavior with Garbo so Garbo liked him. We then after a bit in the arena went for a ride around the property and through the vineyards. Lovely.
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| it was good for Garbo to have some separation training from Mr M |
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| Mr M learning to pony and follow the rail |
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| Flippa and Mr M |
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