Poppy
- DOB: May 2016
- Breed: Traditional Cob
- Height: 15.2hh
- Colour: Blue-white (grey)
Poppy is my main stunt horse, and buddy. We’ve been training together since 2017. She is a broad, full-feather cob type with stunning blue eyes. She will eventually grey out completely. She is a horse who I bought completely unseen when she was 14 months old, after I’d been looking for ‘a four year old to bring on’. I saw her advert and kept going back to her.
Training with Poppy is a conversation and she gives as good as you do. Poppy can bolster confidence and look for guidance and I’m very happy I get to share part of my life with her.
Skills / in training:
- Trick Riding
- Vaulting
- Skill at arms (sword, spear, lance, joust)
- Liberty
- Classical Dressage
- Photoshoot work
Megara
- DOB: Approximately 7 years old, DOB ~April 2016
- Breed: Standardbred x Warmblood
- Height: 16.2hh
- Colour: Dark Bay
Megara is on Loan to me from Save Abandoned Fly-Grazing Equines (S.A.F.E.), a UK based charity. Megara was rescued in May 2018 after being spotted in January 2018 abandoned on private land along with another mare. Megara was fostered to me in February 2022 following losing my Summer and wanting someone to be a buddy for Poppy ‘for a few months’. Over a year later…
Megara had minimal handling or world experience on arrival to me and her progress looks ‘slow’ from the outside; we are working on strength and fitness ahead of potentially backing her to ride. She is working well from the ground.
Skills in training:
- Safe handling of feet and legs
- Strengthening through her back and hind end
- Wearing tack – bitless bridle due to an old injury on her tongue
- Experiencing a ‘live’ Yard environment
- Bath/wash down (long term – she really hates water)
- Lunging/Long lining
- Liberty basics (in a sand pen)
- Pole work from ground