We did a very wide variety of things this week! The members started out with Alice’s Charity Cake Stall – Alice was doing her Fund Raising Badge & decided on a cake sale. There were a wide variety of very delicious cakes & cookies and Alice did a roaring trade all morning, She thought that she had made enough to be able to come back in the afternoon and sell more, but misjudged just how popular they would be – She sold out and has raised somewhere in the region of £35 for the Neuroblastoma Society for Childhood Cancers – Extremely well done Alice!
Riding was with Jenna & June who worked on the usual Accuracy, Control, Figure Work & Balance with lots of exercises to achieve these aims.
Unfortunately during June’s Session there was an episode when the horses spooked due to the sudden appearance of a Pheasant followed by a strange dog, that had the ponies all dancing sideways and 3 Riders parted company from their ponies. This just goes to show how unpredictable ponies can be & why balance is so very important.
On the yard with Jenny, the members were grooming, mucking out, doing hay & waters and one member asked if she could show her how to do a tail plait so that she could try to do it as well (June got the job). They also did some horse handling & leading on the yard using Jack & Ella with Jenny.
Meanwhile, back in the sand school Hannah was teaching the members about dressage. She had the members doing figure-work on foot, collected & extended trots & canters all on foot. There was a lot of energy expelled doing these exercises and they were a lot of fun.
This Weeks Birthdays
Joshua was 9 years old on the 25th November & Megan was 12 years old on the 30th November. May we wish you both a belated Happy Birthday from all of us here at Pine Ridge Pony Club Centre.
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