Autumn is closing in...

It is a bit stressfull at the moment. Autumn is realy closing in with enormous steps and we are far from done with everything. The horses openstable should have been done by now, but we have a lot of work left until it is done.

God, How I miss this feeling!

Quatren and Eddie has got a bit of an autumn brake. I will start to train Eddie more serious when the horses are back home again.

Divno has been mostly worked in hand, but he has not realy ben himselg lately. Stressed, hot, nervous and sensitive. What happened to the quite calm horse I once knew? I figure that the chilly days might be the reason, but I am not sure. I will have to explore it further. His energylevels makes him doing quite good collected trott, the only thing is that it is not reay what I want him to do at the moment. I would like him to stretch out way much before we go into collection, or atleast wait until we are at my trainers place in the end of October.
Yesterday I released him after a bit of training, I was afraid that he would run away and that I would have to  go through around 2-3 acres of land to find him again (we where in one of the grazing fields, and his energy was extremely high so I figured that he would just run away). But he stayd with me, we ran toghether for a while, and he bucked and reared. He seemed to enjoy it! He also bowed down with just an easy tap on his fetlock. He realy starts to understand that exercise now.
Overall I am very happy with his developement, but his energy feels to nervous and stressed for me to be completely satisfied. We'll see what happens.

Earlier this summer, his underneck was still very well developed. He realy gets better and better!

Franz has also become more tensed the last days. He might aswell react to the colder weather. But our forests are also full with wild boars, moose, deers and other wild animals so that could also be the reason for the horses to get more nervous. Franz will have a visit by the vet on Friday, she will examin him for the insurance company and he will also get his vaccinations. I am a bit worried about the flexion tests, the front hooves will be sort of fine I believe, but his hindlegs is still not an easy task. I think we will have to skip them. I hope it will work out fine!

Franz, when will you ever learn to calm down? <3

I have decided not to ride Divino at the mounted combat-clinic in October. He is so not ready. Instead I will borrow a very nice riding horse from the stable where the clinic are beeing held. I am so much looking forward to get the oppportunity to acctually ride properly again. Oh, how I long for it!