Dreaming of Passage on a Black Hairy Pony.

This blog is about my beloved Bella. She is an eight year old 14hand 2ins Dales mare. Her registered name is Daloumie Arabella and she is by a stallion called Wolsey Master Oliver and out of a mare called Daloumie Melody.

My late partner, David, bought her for me when she was just a year old. We have done all our training together and by ourselves, so far. No-one else has ever so much as sat on her.

We have so far mastered Spanish Walk together, all of the lateral movements in walk and some in trot, and my dream is for us to master all the advanced movements and to compete at as high a level as we can manage - not to try to win - just to prove that an endangered rare breed pony and an ordinary rider can do just about anything if they try hard enough.

Just to be there with alongside the professionals with my little old black hairy pony who gave me her heart when I discovered clicker training a few years ago. That's my dream.

Now the hard work to achieve it begins in earnest. We have the rest of our lives together to get there, and I believe that we'll do it!!!