Happy New Year!!!
Bluey and I are back at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester and have started our training for Wentwood in Spring 64km CR on March 18th. I came back on January 4th for 2 days of very intense training to be a Student Ambassador, and Bluey joined me a week later. Having had no turnout at home over the Christmas break he was very pleased to be back in his paddock at Fosse Hill and spent some time announcing his return with squealing and bucking.
He went out for his first training hack yesterday, 14km around beautiful little lanes, while this morning we went into Cirencester Park for the first time. We rode out with Becci, a postgraduate student, and her ex-racehorse Jade. I had not been into the park before and was quite surprised by how large it is, while Bluey was overjoyed at the miles and miles of grassy tracks. Although the ground was still semi-frozen we did lots of trot and canter work, and I am hoping to use it as an integral part of our training regime, combined with roadwork, canter work on the exercise track and sessions on the horsewalker.
Academic work has stepped up this term with a presentation to give on the popularity of Irish and French bred NH horses, a group essay on Dairy Supply Chains and a scientific literature review for Equine Science all due soon! Add to that training and looking after Bluey, polo lessons, upcoming work as a Student Ambassador and my own fitness work in the gym; this term looks set to be nice and busy!
Anna and Bluey xxx
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