All Three

A short session with Remy today. He seems perfectly happy with the bit now. He's mouthing nicely. I put the numnah and circingle on him today to see how he would react - hi didn't. I took him out to the picadero and we worked on the giravolta on both reins. He was a little distracted, but he did ok, he's definately getting the hang of it. I have to be careful now though as he's anticipating. I moved to his side to tighten the circingle and he started to move away from me. Asked him to stand and tried again and he stood quietly. He's had a swelling on his hock, there is a graze on the side, probably where Bonbon (our 2 yr old) has kicked him. He teases her something rotten and when she was little he got away with it, but she's more or less the same size as him now and quick to let him know she doesn't like it. Anyway it's going down slowly so I don't think it's anything too serious.

We walked Anky and Corky out today as planned, they were a little confused wondering why on earth we would want to do this. They were very well behaved and on the way back we came through the front field. I decided to walk round the perimeter with Anky, but Jim went down to the yard. Anky didn't realise that Corky had left her until we were half way round. When she realised she whinnied and pulled away, half rearing and kicking out, trying to get to her. I had her on the long rope so I let her canter around and sort herself out. She started to trot and then walk and I walked with her and then halted and asked her to come in to me. She was still focussing on Corky, by now in the bottom field almost to the yard but she came in and halted. I turned and led her around the field with a loose line, halting and changing directions and she just calmed, halted when I halted, walking on when I did, her focus returned to me. So I was really pleased that she calmed so quickly and walked down the field happily and calmly.