The way to heaven is on horseback

So for a while I've been wanting to do a post that is more for me than anyone else. This post is about the money I spend on riding and also things that I will need in the future.  Every year I spend £1080 on riding lessons (one lesson every week of the year). I then also do Pony Club on a Monday night a year's worth of Pony Club (one meeting a week, every week of the year) would be £520. So thats £1600, this doesn't include any of the own a pony day's or extra activities that I do. I am so lucky to have a family that supports my riding life style and definitely think that it is more a life style than a Hobby.  Now on to things that I would like or need in my riding future. The first thing on the list is a new riding Hat that I can then use for competition, I've decided that I would like a black velvet one, as blacks the colour that I prefer. When looking on the internet I found two that I like. The first one is a Gatehouse Hickstead Velvet Riding Hat this c...

Hey guys So ive just got back from my riding lesson and I had my boy Gatsby :') Love that pony he is great though I don't like his owner! Urghhh annoyed.com but more about that later. So I rode Gatsby and did some canter work (there will be video's for you all) that I hope you enjoy hehe, feel free to tell me if you thing I need to improve things :) I always appreciate constructive criticism as my aim is to get better at what I do! So below is a video of me and my boy Gatsby. He's the big black one and I'm the one that is wearing the pink top and beige jodhpurs :) So today we were working on getting better transitions for the dressage competition next week working going from walk to trot, trot to canter, halt to trot, halt to canter and then walk to canter. This wasn't easy because Gatsby doesn't like doing too many transitions and gets bad tempered when he has to work too much (or what I should say is when he thinks he's done too much work). But s...

its about affording lesson's growing up I always wanted to ride it was my thing it was what made me me. It was what made me light up, feel better about my self, and know that there was something that I cold do and just have a great time doing that's just the way things where. But affording lessons werent always easy in fact if it wasn't for my amazing mummy I would probably have never rode because of how expensive it was then came all the extra things the jodhpurs, hat, gloves, etc. And this is where my nan came in because she helped me to get the things that I need to make me better at a sport that I love. Now my nan helps me out with my college course. You might wonder why i decided to share this with you guys, it was because I wanted you to feel inspired. It might be hard to afford lessons sometimes, but in the end things always work out for you and if you love something you should never ever give up on it because its what you do. Never give up on something that makes ...