Hello everybody

The horses have finally gone out for the summer. Foxy and her fave grazing pal Snowy (a 14.2hh Connemara) are in a heavenly paddock. The flies have been awful though, so we have had to put cute fly fringes on them both. Foxy’s is gold and black, very stylish! Snowy’s is more a manly, leather coloured one. Foxy loves living out. She doesn’t mind the rain (which is just as well, because it hasn’t stopped raining for ages) and she and Snowy take it in turns to lie down.

Foxy and Snowy in their fly veils

Foxy enjoying a good roll!

My exams have finished, finally! So now I can get back to some serious training. And lots of FUN! I have a pairs cross country on Sunday, there’s nothing more fun than that! I am riding with a friend whose horse is huge – bigger than H+P's new blogger Sophie's – Alfie must be at least 17hh and he's still growing!! It will be a real laugh if we have to dress at a fence (that is jump it together alongside one another), I will be in shadow and it will be impossible to match his stride. I’ll try and get a photo to show you.

Can’t wait for the sun to come back, I hate getting drenched at cross country rallies!

Keep riding
Hilary x