DD is 6, and has had a rough ride with ponies this year. She's ready to come off lead rein, but her confidence wobbles a bit as she has had a couple of unpredictable incidents and ended up coming off (no fault of hers or the pony).
Current pony is a saint on lead rein or hacking out off it. He is another story in the school off LR. He's green, not naughty, and we are working on it, but she's getting a bit disheartened.
We have seen a promising looking first ridden sec.a, but she is 18, and they want £1000 for her. My thoughts are that she can bring DD off lead rein this year, then DS will be 3.5 and he can move onto her as LR and eventually FR.
Reassure me that an 18 year old native is still relatively young and isn't going to cost me a small fortune in vets bills!
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Somanyillustrations · 14/11/2016 13:37
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