Jenny covered Equine First Aid with the members, and explained what to do in the case of an emergency, how they were to stay calm and call for help! Normal temperature was discussed, and there were a lot of Urgggh! Sounds when Jenny told them how to take a horses temperature. Then came the demonstration, with even more eughhhhhh!!!! That’s horrible from the younger members when Jenny inserted the thermometer in the horses rectum! Happily both ponies used had normal temperature of 37 degrees, the same as us humans.
Jenny then finished off with a quiz type game sticking the names of body parts onto Jack, who, bless him took it all in his stride and was very well behaved throughout, even though he had all of these brightly coloured stars stuck all over his body.
Hannah, meanwhile was round the back introducing the members to Dressage. She taught them about the dressage arena, and introduced them to a small variety of dressage moves (on foot), there were sounds of ponies in collected trot, extended trot, flying changes in canter & passage.
Jenna & June again shared the riding lessons! Jenna worked on position, balance, control & accuracy and was most impressed with Eryn who rode in a group with much more experienced riders, and managed to ‘up’ her riding skills to be able to keep up with them in ability. Well done Eryn!
June took the younger members and also worked on Balance & position as well as transitions from halt – walk & back to halt again. Her most improved riders were Chloe P & Harmony (Harmony had her 1st impromptu canter) who have only been riding for a few months & outshone some of the members who have been riding for over a year. Well done guys, keep up the hard work!
We have four Birthdays this week!!!
Annabel G will be 7 on the 25th Sept
Alice will be 11 on the 26th Sept
Grace will be 9 on the 30th Sept & finally
Abigail H will be 10 on the 2nd Oct
May we take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Birthday from all of us here at Pine Ridge Pony Club Centre
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