The members were, as usual, separated into groups! Jenna concentrated on the riding and covered accuracy & control in walk & trot as well as transitions from halt to walk & walk to halt.
They all rode very well indeed and the reward for the last session was mounted games!
Jenny & June worked in the yard with them doing mucking out, grooming, horse handling & tacking up.
Back to the mounted games! These were played on horseback in walk & involved bending in & out of bending poles, dismounting, running back over the stepping stones & throwing a ball into a bucket before running back to where the next team member was waiting to go on horseback.
This was a lot of fun but very tiring for those of us on the ground as we had to do a lot of running.
The members didn’t want to stop but as there was another session in the afternoon, we had to finally call a halt to the games & take the ponies in for lunch & Untack them.
The afternoon session ran in a similar vein but without the mounted games. We did riding in open order and had a lot of fun with that as it really enables the members to put into practice what they have learned.
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