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Backing and producing young horses with focus on them being confident and happy in their jobs 🐴

16/04/2026

Long day for Darcy today having the rest of her tooth extracted 🥲
I really couldn’t be more pleased with her, baring in mind she doesn’t know us very well she was foot perfect, such a polite, kind girl travelling quietly there and back.
She’s a bit sore and sad now as it was a big job taking it out and was not a quick procedure but hopefully she will be feeling so much better in a week or so and will then be ready to start some proper work when she’s all healed!
So grateful to my co pilot and co owner Alice and also my Mum, Dad and Sam for doing the quickest tyre change this morning when we had a flat tyre after we were already loaded and ready to go 🫣 it was like watching an F1 pit team😂

15/04/2026

Rising 4yo Echo has started longreining picking it up really quickly and being very relaxed out and about 🥰 Physically we are taking it slowly as she was born late in the year but mentally she was ready for another challenge and she seems to be enjoying it!

12/04/2026

The Allerford girls enjoying their day off ❤️

09/04/2026

This beautiful girl is Storm, she’s a 12yo Welsh section D who I’ve been schooling to improve her way of going and understand that the leg can mean more than just ‘Go’!
Anyone that knows Storm knows she loves to go 😂🐎

I am so proud of the progress she has made, she’s really starting to realise that not everything needs to be done at speed and she’s feeling stronger and more balanced. She now understands that putting my leg on means bend rather than whoosh off😆 We still have a way to go before everything is perfect, the canter for example, but not long ago she struggled to do more than a few strides of canter without breaking into her big Welsh trot and then she would get very hot and it would take time for me to get her to relax again so the improvement here is lovely to see, clever girl🥰

04/04/2026

This is why I always have my project horses/breakers teeth done before I even try a bridle on ⬇️

Poor Darcy was booked to have her teeth done yesterday and we found a fractured tooth ☹️ it’s been in there for some time and would have been causing her a lot of pain as it was cutting her gums and cheek. So this morning the vet came out to sedate her and remove the fractured bit.
I can’t imagine how painful it would have been for her if I’d just put a bridle on and cracked on with her!

So a bit longer to go before she can come into work as she will have to go into the vets to have the rest of it removed 🥲 but I’m so happy that for now she will be a bit more comfortable❤️

31/03/2026

Bandit started longreining a couple of weeks ago and has really got his confidence now 🤩
The pony who had only left his field for the first time recently now happily marching through a fairly busy village seeing so much and not worrying about any of it. As you can hear in this we’d just passed a lady with her dog and we were going past a park with people on swings which even last week he thought were pretty scary. This week it’s all clicked and he’s really trusting that we won’t ask him to do anything he’s not capable of😇

27/03/2026

Over the moon with this one this morning😇
This is Monty he’s a 6yo unhandled stallion who I have been working with.
Today I got a headcollar on in just our third session.
I started out asking him to touch my ‘hand on a stick’ made with a glove and an old schooling whip and then got him comfortable with him letting me touch down his neck and shoulder with it. I then progressed to asking him to touch my hand and then letting me touch his face and then I introduced the headcollar, all done with lots of bribery 😆 of course being a pony this worked really well! The plan now is to teach him to lead and then get more comfortable with being handled, having his legs touched etc but it will all be done at his pace so he doesn’t get frightened 🥰

26/03/2026

So pleased with Darcy since she’s arrived, she has such a kind nature and has settled with the rest of the girls really nicely and is taking it all in her stride.

Today I lead her off of Dotty for the first time and she was completely foot perfect🤩
Dotty had colic surgery last July and has not been back in work long since she had a few complications afterwards so she is also building up her strength so they can get fit together to hopefully enjoy a fun summer out and about🤞

Bella and I also had a fun afternoon at our jumping lesson and it’s safe to say after going for a blast on the moor at the weekend she has found her forward button and was whizzing around with so much confidence 😍 no photos from today as we went by ourselves but I couldn’t be happier with her🐎

22/03/2026

Such a beautiful morning to take Bella out on the moor, she was such a good girl. She’s definitely got much fitter and found another gear I didn’t know she had with Storm and Flynn 😆 she loved it🥰
Then back home to walk out Darcy who was very well behaved just called a bit. She’s forward and not spooky, I will just keep taking her out in hand until she settles leaving her pals and she’s had an MOT to make sure she’s happy and comfortable before I progress with anything else.

21/03/2026

Our beautiful new girl Darcy owned by myself and Alice!
She’s a 9yo exracehorse who has had a foal and been turned away for the last 5 years.
Picked her up this morning and she travelled beautifully home, just love her chilled out attitude even when she’s worried 🥰
Looking forward to seeing how she takes to coming back into work and having a new career❤️

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