Due to my lack of confidence, I have never hacked Bonny out... that is till today! All the work we have put in with Cathy as finally paid off. Everthing felt right so after walking out on-line I jumped on and off we went! Cathy taught us to keep a check on how confident we felt with a scale of 1-10, anything below a 5 is fine, above that don't do it till you felt you could push yourself a little and only if you're at 6-7, above that is a definate no no! I can honestly say I was at 7, and I knew I could get off at anytime. Bonny was really eager to go so we had to do a few circles in the field entrance first till she stood still. Donna and Rocky came too on-line, first stop was at our gate, then a side street and finally to a small layby where we turned to come back. Bonny picniced at each stop which was good, but when we turned she wanted to stop again which wasn't a safe place for us, we got into a little argument and I was just about to jump off when Donna suggested she went in front and bonny just followed her!!! we did this 3 times till Bonny stopped arguing and turned lightly. When we got back home she got loads of treats.
riding 1 hr = 2hrs
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