Guess who left her camera at her boyfriend's house 150 miles away? So no videos or photos for a couple of weeks unfortunately. I'm going to visit again on the 6th July, so I'll get my camera back then I think. I should be going to a show the weekend before though, I might be able to get a crappy quality video of my test using my parents' camera.
I'm planning to go to Abbey Dressage on the 4th July. It's a bit too posh for us really, but I need to get out and doing competitions before the haflinger show and it's the only one available on that weekend I can make.

Niels is doing great. We have an outdoor dressage arena now! It's just in a field, but there's some nice solid markers, and it's quite flat. Brilliant for Niels and I to practice on though, great for his head.
I had a lesson last week which went well. We worked on half halts and showing a distinction between the working trot/canter and the medium trot/canter mostly. I think we'll do ok at the haflinger show in a few weeks! Really excited about it. :)

We've started practicing jumping! I am absolutely appalling at it, I try to stay out of his way as much as possible, although, because of his nature he wants me to tell him what to do... but I don't know what I'm doing either! haha We're working on it. We jumped a 2ft 3" spread last night a couple of times, once very successfully, mostly not so though. :/ It's coming along though.

Niels has to have a cyst removed from his ear tomorrow, so we're traveling to the vets for that. Definitely counting that as one of his trips out! They say that the procedure will take literally 10 minutes, quite a lot of fuss for such a small thing.

We went to the Armscote Show on Sunday to watch and support some people from my yard, Willicote Equestrian Centre, and we saw another Normandy Cob! We were so shocked! He was in the side saddle class too, they looked gorgeous. I spoke to the family that owned him and they were convinced that they only had a 'cob', "just a cob" they kept saying! Hopefully they got back later in the day and googled it. It's funny how some people put cobs into one bracket, the breeds may not be as regimented, but you can still tell the difference between an english cob and an irish cob, so why not a normandy cob?

The horse at 7 seconds is like identical to Benny. Anyone speak french? I'd love a translation. lol





How could you say just a cob?