Saturday

8- feed and turnout

9 :30 Ride Vinnie (sandpit)

11 Ride Shawna (sandpit)

12 Sam on Suzy (sandpit)

1 Tack room and Paddocks

2:30 Manny and Fuzz

3:30 - open

4:30 Turnin and Feed

Sunday

8 - feed turnout

(Gunner arrives)

9 - Ride Shawna (sandpit)

10 Manny and Fuzz

11:30 Ride Vinnie (sandpit)

12 - open

1- open

2:30 Samantha and Suzy ( not confirmed )

3:30 More Paddocks.

4:30 Turnin and Feed

Well, like I said it never rains at the barn. Well.. barely ever. At Hylee Training we had a nice weekend full of sunshine and riding.

Lessons went great everyone did well. We might have had a couple bumps along the way. But in the end everything worked out. And I am very proud of all my students for perservering even though it wasn’t always fun.

We are now free of boarders and there is less traffic at the barn - which is great and definetly creates a more relaxing atmosphere and that is what we are aiming for.

Currently we have one spot open for training for March and April. Remember Flashy is arriving May 1st!!! Got to make room for her…

We also have two spots open for students. Unfortunately there are no Saturday afternoon lessons available. We do have Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon open…

 

Flashy is the latest member of our team and will be another lesson pony. She is 14.1 or 14.2 and a reg Paint Mare. She is 10 years old. She recently had a foal. Frosty ( which I helped name!) and as soon as he is weaned, she will be arriving at our barn.

We are planning on her arriving anywhere between the first to the end of April. Flashy will then need a little refresher course before she is brought into our lesson program. After that she will also be available for lease at our regular rates.

Here is a pic of Flashy before she was in foal:

And her is a pic of her now with her baby:

 

All is well at Hylee Training lately. We have a few new students who have just joined us and we hope they will join us this summer at the shows!

Suzy is doing well and we have figured out she is an escape artist. She enjoys roaming the shedrow in her spare time. We hope to see some weight gain on her this coming month. Right now she is shedding all over everywhere, which i would guess is because she was malnourished at her previous home and that it is a little bit warmer here in Richmond then on the Sunshine Coast.

Vinnie is coming along quite well. Today I rode him bareback walk, trot canter and over poles. This is quite an improvement over the bucking and rearing horse we had on our hands when he first arrived. All in all I am quite impressed with his progress.

Cassia now has a new student that will hopefully get her in better shape. Now she can get ridden on a more regular basis - it will be excellent for her. Tommorow I will be taking her off the market and she will no longer available for sale.

Fuzz is now back on her reining training as I rode her yesterday. And tommorow she will have a new student to teach and some one else to give her some exercise. And she really needs it.

When the first of the month comes around we will have one spot open for boarding or one spot open for training. Or possibly another lesson horse… who knows!

I forgot to add… we have a new horse in training. Shawna. Shawna is a draft horse cross that Ayla (my working student ) and I will be working with over the next few months to get her ready for the upcoming show season. Right now Shawna is green broke and we are working a few of the wrinkles out first before we can start to get ready for the shows. I will post updates as they happen.

 

 

This weekend everyone got worked. Vinnie was lunged today and will be ridden tommorow. And Cassia was ridden and was pretty good on Sunday. Fuzz was lunged and will be ridden tommorow.

Fuzz was full of piss and vinegar and definelty needed to get out. After being lunged on Sunday, she is a totally different horse. Cassia needs some work on being herd bound, which I found was kindof strange as when she is trailered in somewhere she has no problems.

Either way, I have decided I am going to have to ride in the rain! Because the weather is not co-operating with me lately.

 

Yesterday I was about to work both Cassia and  Vinnie, which was nice. Today it was raining. Hopefully tommorow I will have a chance to work Fuzz and Vinnie.

Vinnie is coming along well. He was lunged for about 20 minutes before I rode him and once he got all the piss and vinegar out of him, he was an excellent horse. I was only actually on him for about 10 mins but he did not buck or rear so he was rewarded by not having to do anymore work.

Cassia is slowly being brought back to work, as you remember she went lame from kicking the wall! She really need to get in shape and we will be working on this over Christmas. As you can tell I have my hands full with lots of horses to work every day.

Keep you updated!

It seems like Vinnie is the only only getting ridden. Today I had a chance to hop on him for about 20 minutes, we didn’t do too much as I am realy just tryng to instill the idea that we are not racing and there is no reason for us to go really fast. I also want to get the basics down. Such as you do good and you get rewarded. And the whole whoa thing down. Things went well, we only had a couple of hissy fits during the 20 minutes.

And tommorow I plan on lungeing for 20 then riding for 20 hopefully getting a couple of good strides of trot in. I would really like to be able to trot before I haul in to another place.

Fuzz didn’t get ridden today, and I am hoping I wil get a chnace to get on her tommorow and give her a good work out. Depending on the weather of course, but our ring is starting t look better.

Ok so it has been a few days since I have posted. I don’t have anyone in training anymore so, no owners to post for. If I had anyone in training I would be run ragged. I also don’t have any room for anymore horses although there are a couple more I have my eye on.

As far as Vinnie goes, he is settling in quite nicely.  The first day, he was acting like a 3 yrd old Stud but today I think he felt more at home. Yesterday I did get on, only because I am crazy. And I will get on anything. Wasn’t such a good ride but my saddle didn’t really fit me on him that well. So it was interesting, I was only walking him for about 10 mins in the round pen and we ended it well. So basically he is broke to get on and that is it. His lungeing also needs a little work. But that is ok we are going to work on it.

Today, we lunged a got to work up a little sweat, so I am planning on slowly bringing back starting with lungeing for about 20 minutes, which is what I did today and then I will start getting on. I picked up a nice little used saddle at Roddicks. I think this is the 3rd saddle I have bought from there, that fits me on him a little better and then he can have his own saddle also picked him up a new bridle as the ones I have are a little too big.

Tommorow depending on weather, I will be lungeing and then jumping on for aout 10 minutes just at the walk to get him used to the ring.

Also, if it is raining I will be heading over to Crescent Stables as they have allowed me to trailer in to exercise my horses. Finally I found a place to exercise with a indoor. Thank God for small favors.!

Also I have decide to put my wonderful mount up for sale. I would really like to see her go to a school horse home. More details on that tommorow. For now off to bed.

Well Winger is now back in Langley for the winter, he will be back in the spring to further his training.

Vinnie our new edition, will be arriving tommorow night. And hopefully. On Wednesday, we can get back to work as noone has been getting worked because of the snow.

As you can see the website is not getting completed and very little riding is getting done due to this horrible weather. I did however manage to ride Fuzz shortly and give Christie a lesson on Winger today. He was very good and I was really impressed with him.

Tommorow Winger has another lesson with Melissa and then I am off to Greystone with Cassia.