by Lara Poynton | Sep 11, 2016 | Australian Brumby Challenge |
Beach week Sansa and I spent a few mornings at Balnarring beach this week. The first day, I was prepared for her to be nervous in the alien environment. Surprisingly it wasn’t the water or the sand that intrigued her at all. It was the racehorses that had her...
by Lara Poynton | Sep 10, 2016 | Australian Brumby Challenge |
We have traveled far and wide this week, to magical dressage lands far away. Sansa spent the weekend in Elmore supporting Tubbarubba Neptune as he took out the dressage jackpot, and came home with champion. It was a fantastic opportunity to to expose Sansa to a new...
by Lara Poynton | Aug 30, 2016 | Australian Brumby Challenge |
Lara and Sansa Week 10, Week 10 and Sansa has come back from her week off, beaming like a golden ray of sunshine. A willing, happy, brumby; and what a week it has been. Week 10 began spending some time with Donald McCulloch. Sansas first true Dressage Lesson; she...
by Lara Poynton | Aug 30, 2016 | Australian Brumby Challenge |
Lara and Sansa Week 9 After such a successful week last week traveling to a three day clinic, staying in different stables, learning and refining the lay down. Week 9 has been a lazy week in. Sansa has had a week off, only coming in for brushes pats and the odd hard...
by Lara Poynton | Aug 30, 2016 | Australian Brumby Challenge |
Lara and Sansa Week 8, What a week of learning. Our float loading preparation was put to use on Monday, when we loaded up for a Steve Brady Horsemanship clinic in Tatura. Sansa arrived at the clinic having only had around 8 rides. Similar to week one, I had to be...
by Lara Poynton | Aug 30, 2016 | Australian Brumby Challenge |
Lara and Sansa – Week 7, After last week’s podium and float training Sansa has taken to standing on anything and everything that can support her. Yesterday Nigel found her asleep with both her front feet on the training bridge. This morning I went to catch...
