Teddy Log: #151 - Sootha Nerves & Stress Supplement? Maybe......

Teddy Log: #151 - Sootha Nerves & Stress Supplement? Maybe......: I worked Teddy at home today and as Steve was also home I asked if he could video record me for about five minutes while I rode, just so I c...

#151 - Sootha Nerves & Stress Supplement? Maybe...

I worked Teddy at home today and as Steve was also home I asked if he could video record me for about five minutes while I rode, just so I could see what we looked like and how we are positioned.

At first I concentrated on the walk and he was fine. No head tossing so he may be passed it during walk as he hasn't done it in a while. Then in trot it started. I have such a hard time keeping my balance on Teddy that I am getting very frustrated. He just constantly tosses his head or stretches his head down. My instructor advised me to ignore his head but he pulls down so strongly that it pitches me forward more often than not. I watched back the video and my position could be better but when it is good it still happens. It's almost depressing for me because I don't know what to do and I feel like we aren't getting anywhere.

As a Christmas gift I got a tub of Sootha Nerves & Stress Supplement for horses. It is meant to be a high dose B group vitamin, magnesium and hyptophan supplement with probiotics for highly strung and stressed horses. I haven't thought much about it since I got it but maybe I should try it. I don't know of anyone that uses it so I will work Teddy every day this week and see if he improves and if he doesn't I'll give it a go.  In the meantime I will do some research on it.

If anyone reading this has any views on Sootha please let me know.

Thanks

Teddy Log: #150 - KDARC Dressage Trials Photos

Teddy Log: #150 - KDARC Dressage Trials Photos: As a member of the Kyneton and District Adult Riders Club I attended the 2012 Dressage Trials that we run each year in Lancefield. This was ...

#150 - KDARC Dressage Trials Photos

As a member of the Kyneton and District Adult Riders Club I attended the 2012 Dressage Trials that we run each year in Lancefield. This was my second year there and I had a full on day, with half spent as a penciller for a judge, and the afternoon as club photographer and then recording scores in the HRCAV records database. Here is a collection of photos I took today:

Teddy Log: #149 - I'm now an egg head!

Teddy Log: #149 - I'm now an egg head!: I decided when I was buying my horse gear a while back that I didn't like the egg head look that the traditional safety helmets give you so ...

#149 - I'm now an egg head!

I decided when I was buying my horse gear a while back that I didn't like the egg head look that the traditional safety helmets give you so I went for a new design. I have been wearing it every time I ride since I got it, but then I saw this picture taken at the Eventing Clinic!

Now Teddy looks wonderful. Just look at the way he is carrying himself! What a handsome horse!

But me? You could be thinking that this couldn't possibly be the first time I've seen myself in the helmet, and its not but... well there is something about this picture that says to me... apart from that I should NEVER wear tight clothes (but that's a whole other story and was unavoidable that day)... well this picture of me in that helmet is just screaming out that I look like Cartman trying to compete in the Special Olympics!

So today on our way home from an outing Steve and I stopped in and bought another helmet at Horseland in Sunbury. The traditional kind. So now I am an egg head! 

What ya gonna do!

Teddy Log: #148 - My photos from the Aurum Eventing Clinic

Teddy Log: #148 - My photos from the Aurum Eventing Clinic: "Flat work done. Now leave me to this grass please." "You want me to do cross-country next? HA! good one!" "Shhh I was onl...