Imagine my joy, its been 10 days of owning my beautiful big Grace. We've groomed, chatted, walked back and forth to the field, and done not much else.
Week 1 - The dentist came and found my poor girl had a big old mouth ulcer on the inside of her left cheeck (glad I know as this will need a few days to heal).
Week 2 - Saddler arrived. Good news, the saddle will fit (the benefit of a balance saddle system). That was all I needed.... the offical 'green light' to now get on and ride for the first time since buying her.
1.30pm the saddler left. I tacked up. By 2.15pm it was 'light's out' and I was injured! I got on my girl and in less than one minute found myself sommersaulting into the air, right ankle sticking in the stirrup and ending up under neath a bucking bronko.
Shaken and limping badly I took her back in and brought her out again for a lunge - If only i'd done that BEFORE I got on!
By 5pm I was in A&E with an ankle the size of an elephants. School girl errors can be costly - in my case 5 months of ankle pain when riding, weekly physio (lots of painful ligament rubbing), crutches and trainers instead of kitten heels! Yuk!
As I said; a valuable lesson learnt! (I hope)
Week 1 - The dentist came and found my poor girl had a big old mouth ulcer on the inside of her left cheeck (glad I know as this will need a few days to heal).
Week 2 - Saddler arrived. Good news, the saddle will fit (the benefit of a balance saddle system). That was all I needed.... the offical 'green light' to now get on and ride for the first time since buying her.
1.30pm the saddler left. I tacked up. By 2.15pm it was 'light's out' and I was injured! I got on my girl and in less than one minute found myself sommersaulting into the air, right ankle sticking in the stirrup and ending up under neath a bucking bronko.
Shaken and limping badly I took her back in and brought her out again for a lunge - If only i'd done that BEFORE I got on!
By 5pm I was in A&E with an ankle the size of an elephants. School girl errors can be costly - in my case 5 months of ankle pain when riding, weekly physio (lots of painful ligament rubbing), crutches and trainers instead of kitten heels! Yuk!
As I said; a valuable lesson learnt! (I hope)
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