Here we catch up
with our 2013 amateur sponsored show rider, Kerry Dawson as she makes progress
with breaking Quest.
I have been busy with getting my minor and major projects sorted out at
university as my deadline for end of year submission is the middle of May,
which isn’t that far off!
On the equine front I have been using the Supreme Products Mane & Tail Builder diligently and it has been amazing
The re growth is substantial now and I feel that by the time my first
show comes round I will be able to plait the section that was rubbed. I am so pleased
with how it has worked and have been using it three times a week to help with
regrowth.
I must say that Quest is loving the massage down his neck, we are still
having issues with pulling his mane, but by persevering and doing a little
every few days (and I do mean a little) he is more accepting to
having it pulled, albeit for the little bit I am pulling.
I have had a practice with the products recommended for Quest – and feel that when the time comes I will get him to shine almost as well as he did when pampered by Team Hollings on his makeover day!
The Supreme Products de luxe Coat Gloss is fabulous and as he is now
getting a finer coat, we follow this with Supreme Products Glistening Oil down
his legs and to highlight his best points and this results in an amazing finish.
I have been suffering with the bugs that the children have brought home,
which played havoc with me as I can’t take medication as it effects my heart
condition so for a week I suffered badly, but soldiered on as I had to continue
the backing process with Quest and with it being half term both my children
needed entertaining.
I worked Quest and got him going nicely with side reins so he could get used to having contact on his mouth.
Before I knew it I was even sat on-board, so this week has seen me
working him every day. In the mornings
before university I can be found in the field next to his stable working him in
his tack on the lunge, and the days I am not at university I have been taking
him into the sand paddock and working him in tack, hopefully by the middle of March
I will be walking him away. He has taken everything in his stride. I am so
impressed with him and how he has been so accepting of everything I have asked
him to do.
My daughter has mastered canter now and has been working on
her individual show – she has only been riding properly since we got her pony
Kennedy at the very end of May! I am amazed at how well she has come on.
I have made payment and sent off the application for grading Quest with
CHAPS and have booked my transport ready for April 14. I am rather looking
forward to it, but am sure this will change to nerves within a week or so. I am
looking at where to take Quest out at the moment for the first show of the
season, and am still undecided as backing him has become priority.
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