Hello!

Hi, I'm Toby, I'm a 13 year old thoroughbred cross and I'm a gelding but that is still a sore point so I prefer not to talk about it. Sarah found me on horse hunter whilst looking for her first horse, she thought that I looked like I could do with some good food and exercise from the photo on my advert but came to see me anyway. Unfortunately I didn't look much like the picture on the internet, I was much worse, I hadn't been looked after properly so I was very thin, my spine stuck up and people said my ribs looked like a picket fence, my hips stuck out too, I felt sad and couldn't be bothered to do much. I made Sarah really sad. I'm much better now but me and Sarah still have some work to do and need to get to know each other better so this blog has been set up to let people know how we are getting on.



3 May 2010

Time flies...



Wow, almost a month since I last wrote on here, I've been pretty busy so I haven't had much chance to put my hooves up and post an update.




Hmm lets see, what have I been up to...




Well I've put some more weight on, Sarah calls me fatty now and says I need working harder so that I get fitter, I disagree, I'm in shape- round is a shape!




I had two weeks off from ridden work and just did lunging and stuff, it was quite good but I wasn't too keen when Sarah turned up with the saddle ready to ride again. We've been trying new bits too, at the moment we're using a neue schule verbindend, I like the taste of it and it's comfortable in my mouth but it's a loose ring so when the bit slides through my mouth a bit after I've been messing around it pinches a little. I have tried my friend Moomin's bit too, I preferred the sides but it wasn't as comfortable in my mouth when Sarah asked me to stand. Sarah thinks I will like a myler bit and has said she will order one for us to try. I will let you know if I like it or not.




Last weekend I got some visitors, Sarah's cousin's and her auntie came to stay (at Sarah's house, not at my place), I liked them they gave me a good grooming to help me get rid of the rest of my winter fur and they brought me lots of mints to eat, I love mints! Sheona was nice, she rode me a bit since I was behaving myself that day, well I didn't think it was fair to protest much because she's only young. She took me for a walk around the arena an d I took advantage and stopped for a good roll, she thought it was funny, I did too. I got given a shower that day as well, it was a hot day so it wasn't too bad but I don't really like being washed.




Since Friday I haven't been going back to my stable to bed, I've been living out in the summer field with the other boys, I love it! What I don't like much though is being caught and brought back in to be ridden so I run away from Sarah, I can do this for around 20 minutes then I give in because I'm out of puff and can't be bothered anymore, it is funny making Sarah run after me though hehehe. When Max's mum Jo comes into my field I go and see her, she doesn't put that stupid saddle on my back and make me do work she just fusses me and gives me a cuddle, she's nice. I will find a video of me running away from her to make you laugh.






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