Well wasn’t that a dreary bank holiday!

We made the best of it; adjusted our planned morning hack for an afternoon one and missed the rain! :laugh: So, loaded up the ponies and took them out to the Water Meadows in Brickett Wood. Really lovely hacking, although quite gravelly ground and some wading through actually quite deep rivers 😮 Last time we went the rivers weren’t too bad – probably knee height for him? Yesterday the 13.2 pony we had with us was submerged up to his belly!!! 😮 Bless them all – four ponies, straight into the water, drinking, splashing and enjoying it and no fuss to get any of them across. We met a handful of other riders doing some water training as their horses wouldn’t go in at all which was a good reminder to us of how good our horses are :db:

We were out for 2 hours. I was terrified I was going to lose a hoof boot or two in the water but we didn’t *phew* I think he had a good time and it starts to get him a bit fitter. He was also super clever when we loaded to come home as he had to load second which looks a bit more scary than he’s used to but he was fine – needed a bit of encouragement where he will now walk onto a fully light opened out trailer without hesitation – but he went on, very little fuss :wub:

I wish we’d got some photos but four horses in water up to their elbows isn’t really conducive to pictures!!