SATURDAY 9TH JULY 2011

This morning session started as usual with the members breaking up into the various groups. Yard with Jenny, Riding with Jenna & Working Dogs with June.

June decided to spring a surprise test on them for their Working Dogs Mini Achievement Badge.

I am very pleased to Announce that the following members have passed:- Emily
Sally
Madison
Satine
Very well done to you all!

We also did a bit on Horse colours, which turned into a colouring competition.

The winner of this was Honey who won a bag of Haribo as her prize!

We also had a spin off competition with 2 very colourful horses!

This was won by Millie J & Sally who worked together on this extremely colourful entry! – they also had a bag of Haribo to share.







In the yard the members did all of the usual things like Grooming, mucking out, doing waters, tacking up & preparing Haynets for lunchtime. Special mention goes to Sally, Madison & Satine for their ability.

Jenny also discussed with them the differences between horses and humans, & what makes a horse a horse. How to age a horse and about horse behaviour!

Riding in both sessions was with Jenna who worked with the members on perfecting 20m circles & figures of eight worked on 2 20m circles. She also worked on position and using their bodies as aid to steering & control. She also did dome on the ground exercises teaching them how their ponies will use their bodies when coming to a halt from a trot. All of them worked hard in both sessions and her most improved riders today were Annabel W & Amy – well done!

This afternoon saw a repetition of working dogs, with just a few members who have already covered the subject having a surprise test, while the other members had a go at being ‘blind’ and being guide dogs. All had a go at this and great fun was had.

I am pleased to say that the 4 members who took the test, all passed.
Congratulations to: Cormac
Lorcan
Eryn
Jemima

Riding was with Jenna who worked with the members doing exactly the same as she did in the morning. She worked everyone very hard and improvements were noted by all!


Jenny once again did things in the yard, such as grooming, tacking up & mucking out
When all of the younger members had ridden, we turned our attention to Pony Club Games. At last weeks show, we held a fun raising cake stall & raffle. With the money we raised from that we were able to purchase 2 sets of plastic Stepping Stones. We were able to practise this race on foot. Maybe next week we will be able to try on horseback. We had a lot of fun with that and hope to hold further fund raising events in the near future, so that we can purchase more equipment for the members to practise with!

Jenny also asked the members to devise a short quiz with 5 questions & answers each. Jenny is going to collate them all and put them into a proper quiz in a couple of weeks! There were some very interesting questions & we are looking forward to seeing how they all perform.