Posts Written By Chloë

Snow stops play…

…this weather may be pretty, but it’s also pretty boring not being able to ride, and the horses are making it known that they are bored too by getting into as much mischief as they can! They are only having a few hours turn out each day whilst I get their boxes ready so they can go back in and spend the day munching and snoozing, it’s a hard life! Today I decided to give riding a go and raked the outside track, a diagonal, and a 20m circle in the arena. The surface holds up pretty well in cold…

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The GHE Christmas Movie!

Since all I can do with the horses atm is muck out and groom because we are covered in the white stuff, I decided to make a little movie. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a cheesy film to watch so if you are bored of ‘Pinocchio’ or can’t stand to watch ‘The Snowman’ for the 11th time then take a peek at the ‘GHE Christmas Movie’ rated PG. WARNING – it contains some corny language and scenes of an equine nature….

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GHE is ‘Going Home’ with a new sponsor!

Some very exciting developments have been going on at ‘GHE Towers’ recently and one of those has been the addition of a new sponsor for 2011. A few months back I was approached by Lori from ‘Going Home’ to see if I would be interested in being sponsored by them, and once she explained a little bit more about ‘Going Home’ and what they did I was a definite yes! ‘Going Home‘ is a not for profit organisation dedicated to buying up failed racehorses and giving them one to one care, attention, and instruction until they are rehabilitated, re-schooled and ready to go to…

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False economy & bad smells!

With 2 horses to take through the winter and Christmas on the horizon I had a bright idea to save money on bedding and put that saving towards buying Christmas presents.  Dustry and Soap have always been on rubber mats with bedding created by Chipmunk Equine, it’s a mix of savings and chopped straw which has also had the dust extracted. I keep them on this bedding because I have allergy related asthma (dust being one of the allergens!) and I can happily muck out both boxes, bank the beds up, and then lay them back down without as much…

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Time for a cross country fix!

Since we couldn’t go xc at BCA I decided to take Soap to Larkhill for a hunter trial so that we could get the xc fix we had missed out on. I know that Larkhill is like the outer Hebrides even on a sunny day so I took along one of the new jackets my sponsor Mountain Horse had recently sent me (more blogs on my new MH goodies soon!) and wore that to hack over to the start box which is quite an exposed windy walk from the lorry park, bbbbrrrrrrrrrr! Soap was clearly VERY keen to be going xc again,…

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Baby steps…

Dustry’s flatwork is coming on really well so I thought it was about time he began his jumping education! I started slowly slowly doing all the baby pre-jump basics like lunging over poles, then riding over them between wings, but in his usual ‘Mr Cool’ way he was totally unfazed by it all and made me look like a bit of a wally for being so cautious, but better over prepared then under is my moto! Yesterday I popped him over his first little x-pole, I had a few poles as wings down the right hand side to begin with…

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Exciting parcel from the postie!

Soap’s 1st at Newbury Show the other weekend won us a ROR jacket, and today it arrived. Unfortunately when I opened it there was a little note inside saying they had run out of jackets so had sent me a gilet instead, and they had also run out of smalls so all they could offer was a medium….nawwww. I tried it on for size and if I’m 100% honest with myself I think Soap and I could easily fit in it! It’s a shame as it would have made a lovely addition to all my other green goodies, but it’s…

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*sigh* SJing and stud issues skupper our day!

Today we set off for BCA BE90 and I thought we had allowed enough time to arrive with just over an hour and a half to spare before dressage. Our Tom Tom and traffic had other plans, we got snarled up in traffic and arrived an hour later than planned which meant when I arrived in the dressage warm up the number before me was already in!!!!! Poor Soap only had 5 mins (if that!) of warm up and then we had to go in, but he did a very good test considering. On the first trot circle I was…

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Clipping never gets any better! *itch scratch itch*

I dread clipping every year because of all the little hairs that get all over you, in your eyes, clothes, mouth etc and it drives me crackers! For the past few years I have paid for someone else to clip Soap to avoid this, but having 2x hairy horses at the mo’ means I can no longer afford that luxury so it was time to get stuck in! I was feeling a little rusty so dug out a chalk block to draw a rough pattern in place. It’s easier for me to just follow the lines, and Soap doesn’t mind…

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