Jenna took all of the riding today and worked on a wide variety of things. With the older members there was jumping exercises, balance, control, 20m circles etc all done in trot while with the younger members, there were also lots of balancing exercises, accuracy, 20m circles, serpentines, etc however they were done in walk. They all rode round on the track as well during the morning session.
They followed the riding with untacking the ponies and putting them back into their stables.
Meanwhile June had all of the members in the yard, for grooming, mucking out, cleaning water buckets & Putting hay round all of the stables ready for lunch time. They had their knowledge of grooming tested, mucking out also for the reasons behind each job. They also made sure that the horses had hay in their stables for lunch.
After all of this was done, they all went into the school on foot for the fun.
Firstly, Hannah gave them a lesson on dressage on foot where they tried different exercises.
Jenna then gave them a jumping lesson on foot. She started with some ground poles set at a certain distance apart and got the members to jump over them with a varying amount of strides between each jump. This is a ground exercise to help teach the members about the horses striding and how sometimes you have to ask the horse to lengthen its stride OR shorted it, (very few jumping courses are set at ideal distances for your own horse).
In the afternoon session, we had 3 small competitions! The first was the best groomed horse or pony! Each member was allocated a pony for the afternoon, and they each had to do all their own grooming. The winners of this were Eryn with Fred & Alice with Barney! They both did very well.
The second was fo the best rider of the day, again there were 2 winners for this category – Emily on Danny & Annabel on Jack. Both rode extremely well and have improved immensely.
The final category was for our helpers, Both Hannah B & Hannah N are Pony Club Members as well as being helpers. They often go unmentioned but the other members got together and decided that the final category should go to the helpers for the amount of time, effort & help that they give to all of the other members.
Well done to all of you members & helpers alike for such good work!
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