I wish I’d had my phone or camera with me today! Ponies have been stuck in this week because the yard are paranoid about them going out when it’s icy. Given this, and his aversion to mornings, I thought I’d loose school today and do fun jumping things with him. So we get to the school and I shut the door and he forgets that the stage between ‘Mummy shuts the door’ and ‘Dino gets to gallop about the place’ is ‘Mummy takes his headcollar off’ so he leaps forwards, panics as he gets stuck, I nearly get my arm pulled out of its socket and we all land up about 4 feet further forward than we were and a bit confused. He’s all like 😮 and then ‘Ohhhhh headcollar. Yeah. Right. Sorry, forgot’. So I take it off and he goes FLYING round the school – bucking, rearing, has a good roll, then more galloping, bucking, farting. He had a grand old time. Would have made excellent video. :wub:

When I thought he’s calmed down I put five trotting poles out (we are under physios instructions to do more trotting poles) and he takes one look at them, gallops at them flat out, jumps the first three and then can’t work out where to put his feet so lands on the second two before galloping to the other end of the school and standing around looking very smug. No, Dino, that’s not how that works. Try again? Well ok then! This time he jumps four. :rolleyes: He did calm down after that and do them nicely, very nicely, and then we raised them a bit and did some like that and then we did some proper jumps which is very much enjoyed. :db: