JJ's owner came today and trimmed his feet, she said he's looking well :) So that's good, we have passed the first inspection so to speak!
When I went to catch him he was lying flat on his side, so when he got up he was a bit soggy and muddy! But that soon brushed off.
Today we were riding in the rope halter again, to give him another day to recover from the pulled wolf tooth. We started out just hacking around the paddock, he was good as gold doing that. Then we did a wee cross-country course, jumping up a tiny bank, then doing a 180 curve and over a tiny ditch, then trotting into the water jump and jumping up the bank. Which is the biggest part of the water jump and we hadn't attempted it before, but as most things with JJ, it was no fuss, no muss. It's probably about 70cm (2'6") high, the biggest we've attempted :)
Then we went out into the park and down the road, weaving between the street trees with Heather and Roly :) We always enjoy doing that. Then back into the park, through the creek and went for a race up the hill. I let him go as fast as he wanted this time, but when I started urging him on he put his head down and twisted his back slightly, having a "yee ha" combined with "this is really hard!" moment. So we steadied up. BUT we made it to the top of the hill with some gas left in the tank! Progress.
Then we jumped on and off the box a couple of times, went back into the paddock and walked around for a while. Heather's friend was riding Roly at this point and she went off for a walk and trot around the cross country while JJ and I stood and dozed and waited for her to come back. Very patient for a baby horse.
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