Misneach-her journey begins
I'm sitting here proud as punch, so I thought I may as well update you all on wee little Misneach. So I mentioned in my last post that Misneach had started her ridden career. After doing all I could with her, driving, lunging, handling, I sent her off to be backed. She came back to me the start of November after going to school for 2 weeks. Since then winter has well and truly kicked in. I only got to ride her a handful of times in the field, so unless we're hacking, I have to box to an arena. That takes time and that isn't plentiful in the daylight hours of winter. I haven't been able to ride her consistently, which to be honest, has probably helped her, because she most definitely is not overworked, but she does lack fitness. Having the other two to ride, I haven't felt the need to push her and we are just pottering away. It was a while before I even got to canter her as I needed to take her to an arena to do that, but boy was it worth it! She...
