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Archive for 2009 >> Easter Egg ride Easter
Egg Ride - Easter Monday, 2009
It was the first ever social ride for my young filly, Romizzia of Grangeway, a.k.a. Zia. She is four years old and half Arab and half Welsh cob and she was bred locally near Aberaeron. She has racing and endurance bloodlines! Hold onto your horses! She has recently been professionally backed by Sheena Hill who does an absolutely brilliant job, so many thanks must go to her too! I cannot thank her enough!
My
friend rode Jimmy Mac for me - he is a very steady steed - and we had a
wonderful time. We just did the shorter route which was
challenging enough for Zia's first outing. Testing terrain!
I think it was about eight miles. Zia
was very bold and brave and strode out as if the bus would not wait for
her! She was so good - I was thrilled to bits with her. All
the old tyres at the start of the ride did not faze her - she just
looked at them. We experienced our first river crossing and Zia
did not even look at it or hesitate - she just marched bravely on, like
a good soldier. We also encountered bogginess and going uphill and
downhill where it was also quite slippery and she coped admirably.
Very impressed I am! I did have a few scary moments but it was me and not the horse! Everything was fine!
Zia
seems to really love being ridden and she walks out at about 100mph!
I have never had a horse who strides out so well! She is very
interested in walking on and she seems to love it all! Ears
pricked all the time. We both really enjoyed ourselves! Many
thanks indeed to the ride organisers, to Non for marking the route, and
to Anita Gordon for test-riding the route the day before. Thanks,
too, to everyone else who helped. We were very chuffed with our rosettes and Easter eggs at the end. A brilliant day! Alex
Nicholls, Tregaron
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