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First ‘actual’ event of the season, and first 100 run for the Demon pony 💪🖤Dressage warm up consisted of trotting across...
10/04/2026

First ‘actual’ event of the season, and first 100 run for the Demon pony 💪🖤

Dressage warm up consisted of trotting across the lorry park, a circle in canter each way, and then we were in 🙈 She was actually very sweet in her test, just lacking suppleness, and scored 33 to sit just inside the top 5.

SJ she again warmed up superbly, but went a little wobbly in the ring, so required quite a bit of hand holding. But my goodness did she try 🥰 We tipped a couple, one she jumped a little flat and the other I held her a bit too much on the approach.

Finally XC, and after a couple obligatory spooks at the first two fences she was flying. I kept the handbrake on as the ground was on the firm side, but she still had an absolute ball out there over what wasn’t a huge track but was certainly one of the more technical ones. I was particularly pleased with her at the rather beefy box brush on three strides to a very narrow and angled shoulder brush, she popped part A sensibly, had a brief moment of 🤔 and then boldly took on B too.

We finished clear with 8 time faults, and just out of the placings with an 11th

04/04/2026

Hugely proud of the big girl today 🦈🥰 She’s been very short of work recently -we’ve just been manic with other horses and ultimately she’s bottom of the list to be ridden- she was extraordinary well behaved in the worst of the gale force winds despite having only been lunged once last week and lunged/sat on briefly yesterday.

I won’t lie, this video isn’t the prettiest, but it’s the reality of training a horse who has quite a lot of bad habits to unpick, through no fault of her own. That’s perhaps been the best part of having her home, realising she is a genuine horse who does try, she’s just never been given the tools to succeed at what she’s being asked, and had understandably acted up out of confusion.

Her previous way of going with an inverted neck, rigid back and outside bend, made forward very difficult and ultimately uncomfortable for her. Add spurs, despite very little comprehension of what leg aids meant, in to the mix and it’s no wonder she became nappy, snatchy and liable to the odd crow hop.

Those habits are still there, and she’s still a long way off being truly responsive to the aids, but she’s at least learned the foundations on the lunge of forward and inside bend, and we can now bridge that across to the ridden work. She’s an entirely different horse to the one I rode the couple weeks before I brought her home from where she was in ‘training’ and truth be told I feel an idiot having left her there as long as I did.

Expensive lesson learned. Hopefully it’s onwards and upwards from here 🦈💪

30/03/2026

A somewhat cheat to the start of the event season, we headed out to Calmsden to do their Training Event. Aka ‘No plaiting, no dressage, no competition wear’

Dilys was an utter wally in the SJ, though she did jump clear. She was however a little weapon on the XC 🚀 Her first attempt at a 100 course, and she skipped round with her all her usual enthusiasm and strong opinions on what speed jumps should be approached at.

Onwards to the next outing, where unfortunately she will have to suffer through the indignation of being plaited and having to do dressage test 😒

24/03/2026

Betty does a thing!

Yesterday Betty had her very first outing away from home to go have a play over Chiltern XC. We had thought Monday would be a nice quiet day up there, we couldn’t have been more wrong, so not only did Betty see XC jumps for the first time, she was also ridden amongst strange horses galloping and jumping all over the place.

Other than a small baby blip at the beginning, she was such a star, and even consented to watching quietly whilst Emma and Secret went off to do some bigger lines by themselves.

And the other new face I must confess is one of my own 🙈A rising 4 yr old, bargain-bin, overgrown pony from Ireland, we ...
21/03/2026

And the other new face I must confess is one of my own 🙈

A rising 4 yr old, bargain-bin, overgrown pony from Ireland, we quickly realised why she was so cheap when she displayed some fairly nasty behaviour on arrival end of last year. The plan had been to pop her in the field to then play with come Spring, but that obviously wasn’t going to be in anyone’s best interests, and as I had a little money left over, I thought I’d treat myself and let someone else do the hard work through the rubbish months…

Unfortunately that wasn’t quite the experience I had hoped for (though I will say she was very well looked after and has returned a much nicer person to deal with on the ground). She came home beginning of this month, and we’ve taken her back several steps as she’s got some fairly gaping holes in her training, beginning with a few sessions a week on the lunge with Emma teaching her how to travel forwards in to a contact. This week I’ve had my first couple of sits on her at home, and I’m really pleased with her improvement. She’s still quite stuck and tight through her body, and she’s clueless to leg aids, but she’s trying, and I think she’s genuinely confused and frustrated over muleish and nappy.

A couple of screenshots of me missing my head as Emma is also assisting with a lunge whip whilst filming!

She had arrived with the name ‘Darla’ which I hated- makes me think of that horrible child out of the film Finding Nemo! So sticking with that theme, and in honour of her fairly savage behaviour on arrival, she is now called Sharky 🦈 😆

In spite of the lack of posts we’ve been super busy these past few months, preparing for the upcoming competition season...
21/03/2026

In spite of the lack of posts we’ve been super busy these past few months, preparing for the upcoming competition season and getting going with some new young horses!

The first new face to introduce is the adorable Broady. He finished racing back in November, and has had a few months downtime in the field before beginning re-schooling for his new career this month.

He is a wonderfully trainable chap, and in the space of two weeks he went from this (photo 1) to this (photo 2) 🤩 We have since taken him hacking -he was perfect- and he has had his very first little pop over a small jump.

🎄It was the night before Christmas and all through the stables,The Farseers ponies were sleeping, as best as they were a...
24/12/2025

🎄It was the night before Christmas and all through the stables,
The Farseers ponies were sleeping, as best as they were able.
For tomorrow they would wake, and with excited squeals,
The presents from St. Nicholas would be revealed.

🤍Curled up like a cat, Skittles dreamed of Santa’s visit,
She hoped for Quavers, and a packet of gingernut biscuits.

🌟Star picked up her feed bucket, and threw it over the door,
She wished in the morning, it would return filled with stud-muffins galore!

🐱Kitty though on Santa’s naughty list, hadn’t given up yet,
Of hoping for the end of her diet, and no more trickle net.

💛It was little Nelly’s first Christmas, and she wished as hard as she could,
For a big field where she’d run, as fast as her long legs would!

🧀Secret and Betty patiently waited for what Santa would bring,
They both wished for green grass and the return of Spring.

🤎Broady and Jude, cheeky three year olds both,
Thought a deep muddy puddle is what would please them most!

😈Meanwhile Dilys, the demon pony, shared her thoughts on St. Nic,
‘I’ll probably get a lump of coal, that fat judgmental prick.’

🦆Lucky slept soundly, mother to be,
Dreamed of a perfect liver chestnut filly, with socks numbering two or three.
(Or perhaps that’s what the the author is wishing for 😉)

🐎Finally Finley ex-racehorse looked up to the stars,
And decided that, truthfully, he was quite happy with things as they are.
So he raised his nose to the sled and reindeers, and to St. Nic he said,
If you want to be home in time for dinner next year, best use a team of thoroughbreds!

12/12/2025

Bit of fun jumping Dilys today 🖤

Betty and Seek had a play over the poles today and were also good 😇

03/12/2025

Superstar Betty’s second time jumping! Now she has gotten the idea she’s really enjoying herself 🤩

03/12/2025

Spooky bunch, these youngsters of ours 😆

28/11/2025

First post holiday outing for the 😈

Bold ✅
Forward ✅
Steering ❌
Brakes ❌

She’s such fun 😆

The Art. The Artist 🙈
21/11/2025

The Art. The Artist 🙈

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