What has been happening out at the yard

For the first couple of weeks it was only the NC students out at the yard so we mainly got used to working with the horses and started to do some riding. After the third week the HNC and HND students came back to the yard at which time we were sorted into our three groups for working on the yard. The rest of the term was used to get on with course work and get up to scratch with walk, trot and canter. For me this was a lot of walk as I had never done much riding before coming to the college. By the end of the first term I was able to walk and trot and I was starting to do some canter. We all went a day trip down to see a a cross county lesson from Lucinda Green at

Colliemore Equestrian Training Centre.







Just before we broke up for the October holidays we were given our groups for working weekends.

When we got back from the holidays it was back to the routine. After a few weeks with the horses getting ridden and getting fit again, we started jumping. Now this was the first time I had ever done jumping of any sort. Our first jumping lesson was good and I was on Hi-Fi, the first jumps we were doing were some small cross polls that we trotted over as we are not allowed to canter over them yet. As it was my birthday out at the yard, a whole crowd of the girls decided to get me! Which they did well and truly with six buckets of mud, shit, shaving and anything else they could find around the yard. We have been working on our jumping and doing course work the rest of the time. On Thursday the 8th of November we were all being taken back to Thurso early from college because the wind out at the yard was to strong and there was objects blowing around the yard and it was just not safe for us to be out there.