What a day

Well god, what a busy day today was! We had a late start this morning but still managed to have all the yard jobs done before lunch. Esme met Billi the goat today (see last post for pics!). I was amazed I must admit that Esme liked him! Shes normally either terrified of animals epecially cows or vicious towards them but thats mainly men! I had alot of catching up on my study to do this afternoon but still managed a long ride. Did a bit of dressage training with Esme which was good, shes really getting the hang of extention. Then we went and worked on a bit of jumping. At the start she just wasnt interested and was almost falling over them but in the end we finished on a high note. She has the strangest jumping technique, she loves to get a good powerful canter into the jump and the get close and lurch herself forward. If you try to collect her she wont jump high enough and there is no way you can get her to slow down. Its not possible, but her way works for her so im happy enough! We found a stray dog wandering around my stables/cattle farm that i share with the local old Irish farmer. The did didnt stay long though as the farmer chased him half way down a road which I wasnt too happy about. Anyway all in all today was good, heard that my first pony Roxy who I have loaned out to a small girl is hunting next weekend so i might consider going too!