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March started by me traveling back to Norway with Finorio. On the way we picked up a Fjord called Alvar, and we have now moved into a small farm just about an hour north of Oslo. The horses instantly hit it off, and became best buds in no-time. I was quite surprised about it. For now we “only” have a pasture with a shed, but we have planned for boxes in the barn. We just need to wait for the weather to turn warmer so one of the walls can be rebuilt.

I want to try to get some life back into this blog, especially to keep track on the development of Alvar and Finorio.

Here is a couple of fotos from this past week. Hopefully we will get back into training quite soon. Continue reading “New Beginnings!”

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I thought I’d show how a regular training day is for me and Finorio. These past few months we have worked on getting a better reaction to the outside leg. The past two days I’ve finally felt some really nice improvements and today i taped the whole session.

We always keep the sessions with our horses short and rather intense, so the video below is approximately 10 minutes, the entire session was about 16 minutes. I’ve cut out the boring parts where the horse is out of angle, walk breaks and so on, but most of the session is in there.

Continue reading “A normal training day”

The first weekend of May we arranged the Rossfechten Symposium on our little yard in Lauchröden. I will probably post an other post about that, when the pictures arrive. First, if you are interested, here is a short video from the event, catching the feel of the event.

But what this post is really supposed to be about is my new bridle!

The weeks leading up to the symposium I wanted to make a new bridle so that I had it ready for the symposium. But as we all know, time flies. So on the Thursday before the symposium I started. Many of the guests had already arrived, and more to come, but I thought I’d try to finish it.

Isak, the Swede who lives and works at the house wanted to help me with metall fittings, since he said that would make it look so much better.

So after I cut the parts of the bridle, spent all evening burnishing the edges (which is whats most time consuming). So with lots of help from Isak, doing the pretty parts of the metall fittings, I managed to get the bridle finished on the friday before the event.