Prickly

I set off up the track with Remy today, got as far as the little wood when a shot rang out through the trees. It scared Remy half to death and he jumped up a bank, spun round and started heading back towards home! I was about to turn him back when I heard another, so decided he was probably right and we should head for safety!  The horses are used to the bangs of the chasse, but this, I think was an air rifle which makes a totally different sound that the horses are not familiar with.
He came back on a mission, a bit freaked, but perfectly behaved. What a good boy.
Not much of a ride so I carried on up to the school and we had 20 minutes in there, starting with some lateral work in walk and then practicing our trot transitions. When he's out on the tracks and motivated he feels great, it's made me very aware that I need to really get him working his hind legs as he's a bit lazy and doesn't pick them up as he should when working in the school. When he makes the effort I can really feel him coming together and some of the transitions today were good into a much better balanced trot.
I had a short ground work and lungeing session with Bonbon and I'm really enjoying working with her, but Jim wants to sell her. :-(  Not sure what's going to happen there as he's made it quite clear that he's no real interest in the horses any more and he's not interested in helping me with Bonbon as it's always been his intention to sell her..........
I spent the afternoon, stringing electric fencing, clearing brambles and picking chestnuts. So between the brambles, chestnuts and bits of wire sticking out of the electric fencing, my fingers are ripped to bits!
Bit of an up and down day.