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Break up the schooling – our routine . Every session we do I like to be very different to the one before. The reason for this is I like to break up the schooling so he doesn’t go sour just doing one thing all the time – he also can get too confident and assumes I’m going to ask him of a movement before I have.

So I'm here in Bali and I've managed to escape the arena for a few minutes and I’ve come down to the local beach and this place is called Echo Beach and if you are into surfing the name Echo Beach will be very familiar as Echo Beach is one of the world's most famous surfing destinations and a lot of the world championships and the big events are held here.

We have been rescuing ponies and other animals for over 25 years but decided to register as charity to show we were trustworthy and transparent. We are "Hoofprints Miniature Haven" and we registered as a C.I.O. with the charity commission in July 2018 after a long consultation with CC as any charity working with animals or children or vulnerable adults needs to meet strict criteria.

These riding tights were kindly gifted to us by Horsemart when we visited them at Hickstead because I was totally drawn to their look and colour straight away!

We all know that planning a holiday when you have horses isn’t the easiest thing (understatement). You either need to be in a full livery, pay someone to do them while you’re away, get someone to housesit or beg your friends to do you some favours.

July started with a trip to Chepstow BE to school around the flagged course with sales livery Sparkle! She absolutely flew round and was an absolute star, mainly focusing on the 90 course as she hadn’t been XC in a while. She finished popping through 100 combinations with ease, we didn’t even take a stick, just gave her confidence vocally.