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Work continues for ‘Team Clarkson’ despite winter weather and waterlogging, as Barbie Clarkson explains in the latest update from the family’s equine diaries.....
I seem to recall our last blog saying that we would keep going with our training and riding despite the weather over the winter! Well, we are trying. Fortunately we have not been washed away or left with any flood damage like so many others have but our sympathies go to those who find themselves in a less favourable situation. The level of waterlogging is less than conducive to our attempts to be ready to event at the beginning of March. Towards the end of December I thought Joe (Projo) and I were on form and after some help from Jane Green who comes up to this area from Derbyshire for a monthly clinic, we have spent a fair bit of time concentrating on greater suppleness using shoulder in and renvers. Joe always needs to work more over his back, as he naturally carries his head and neck a
little high, so all the work I’m doing with him is to increase engagement and get his long frame more elastic to help him work ‘through’ to the rein. We then missed three valuable outings, one to Blackdyke Farm as a result of frightening black ice, the next to West Park due to flooding and the third to Lane Farm, which was cancelled due to ice. Onwards and upwards with the school holidays looming we arranged to go to a jumping at Jamie Atkinson’s with Georgina and Taboo (Simply Exclusive) and frustratingly yet again, rain stopped play as roads were under water, along with a fair amount of Co Durham. The Christmas holidays are usually filled with fun and days out hunting. This time there was no usual for us. We did though have fun with a Christmas jumper rug for Wee Willy to elevate his level of
importance on the yard. With bottomless mud and even more rain lashing the countryside, Jack and Georgina managed only New Year’s Day. I dropped them off on what started out as a very welcome frosty morning at the Bowes Hotel, Bardon Mill and left them to it. After three hours I got the call – “Mum please can you come and pick us up, we are freezing and Taboo has lost a shoe”. All great stuff but the shoe had just been put back on a couple of days earlier after the original disappeared in the mud in our own field so I was again left with the task of saying Happy New to our farrier. Both Henry (Santorini) and Taboo resembled wallowing hippos and came home to a warm shower and big haynets swiftly followed by Jack and Georgina being fed and defrosted.
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