Lucy's going home present

Lucy went home yesterday and she has made such good progress that her owner and I thought it would be useful (and fun for her!) to pop a couple of our xc jumps before she went home.

I took Felix  - neither he nor Lucy had been jumping in ages and so once they realised what was happening they were both beside themselves.  I had my camera in my pocket and took a few clips of Lucy - she just wanted to GO for it and even though I edited out the squeals of excitement you can see she could hardly contain herself!

It was great to see her taking the first steps on the road back to being an eventer and I hope there will be lots more updates about her before too long.


Lucy goes jumping from Nic Barker on Vimeo.

After we'd done all that, I went back and looked at the photos from the first time Sam came and rode her.

Of course its not easy to compare just by looking at 2 such different photos, but her stance and topline are so much better now (below) than in March (the photo above); you can feel it as a rider, its not just in these photos - really, that's all down to better hooves and better biomechanics and it will get even better as she grows the rest of her new, balanced hoof capsule.