He has been living out 24/7 in a tiny little paddock since last week which has actually not done his waistline any harm despite no work as he has had access to very little grass and I've been feeding hay in the field. We move onto our winter grazing soon and I want him on the lean side so he can stay out a bit more!
He's looking very hairy and scruffy now and still rug free so if he is able to get back to work my first job will be to clip him out and clean and tidy him up a bit!
While Jack has been off games I went to ride my friends pony this week, she has been doing really well and won lots of Dressage classes on him this year and one of the young girls on her yard has been doing a fair bit of jumping with him. I've not ridden him in 6 months and the improvements in his balance were really clear, he felt much more consistent and stronger. He's been jumping lots of lower level classes 50 - 60cm heights and has done well jumping a lot of clears recently. Jumping him felt a little strange at first as I've not ridden anything but Jack in 6months but we were soon enjoying ourselves and he jumped really nicely for me. We had a bit of trouble with a double which I had not sat him up enough for and he knocked both parts down with his front legs but when I got my act together and rode him up in to a stronger contact he jumped it beautifully. He is a great little eventing pony in the making and I'm hoping I might be able to steal him a bit next year and maybe do some arena eventing over winter!
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