Now to the business of the day!
Announcing the winner of our Sunflower Growing Competition – Libby, her prize was a book on horsemanship which we have all signed for her and we hope that she finds it informative, Keep up the good work Libby.
Paul & Jack taught the members in the yard this week – They covered Mucking Out, Grooming, Sweeping the Yard, Filling Haynets, Filling Water Buckets & Feeding.
The Aim of these tasks is to instil some knowledge of how to care for a pony should they ever be lucky enough to own their own at some time in their lives.
There are certain jobs that have to be done every single day, regardless of how you feel or what the weather is like!
Mucking Out, Feeding & Watering your Horse is a daily job as should be grooming. Grooming is important to check for injuries or swellings that can lead to unsoundness in the horses.
Bailey was the star of these sessions as she just loves to do all of these really mucky jobs and does them so well.
Riding was with Jenna.
Jenna tried to get the members to act ‘drunk’ on the ponies to get them relaxed in the saddle! This enables them to test their balance in a relaxed way!
She then went on to do lots of different exercises to strengthen their position & balance. There were lots of leg stretching, toe touching & balancing by standing in the stirrups.
Jenna also did some Figure work with them like ‘Figures of Eight’ & ‘Three Loop Serpentines’
Yasmine was the most improved this week – well done Yasmine, keep up the good work.
During all of these exercises, Daisy decided that she was hot & the sand being quite wet looked very inviting to a hot horse, so she thought that she would quite like to roll and cool down! Poor Madison had to jump off quite quickly to avoid getting caught under her – well done Madison for acting so fast - Naughty Daisy!!!!!
Meanwhile – in the office June was in charge of the Crafting session that we had today. The members were making Cards with a horse theme. There was a lot of glue, a whole lot of glitter glue, a heap of noise and then on top of it all a lot, lot more glitter.
Some of the members have decided to keep their wonderful cards hidden from parents as a surprise so please excuse me if I don’t show any of the members finished items!
I will say however that they were all wonderful but the one I liked the mose was Alice’s first card (Some of the members managed to do more than one card)
Well done to you all, see you next week for more Pony Club Fun.
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