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Hello everybody and welcome back to my podcast, Esme's Country Life.

Today we have another midweek mini pod or podlet and I'm going to be talking about

the sponsored ride that I did yesterday with Casper. So I'm going to be talking a little bit more

about kind of sponsored rides or charity rides or farm rides. If you don't know much about them,

I'm going to give you my experience of the ones that I've done with Casper over the years. But before we begin, I just want to say a huge thank you to the sponsor of the podcast, Red Post. Red Post is an equestrian and a country store based in the UK, and they also ship all over the world. And they actually have a store in Devon. So if you're planning your summer holidays this year, fancier holiday or a trip down to Devon

would definitely recommend going to Red Post. Actually, at Red Post, they have a in-house helmet

fitter. So if you're looking to get a new helmet, you can get yours measured up and make sure it's all

safe and secure. But anyway, go and check them out at Red Postquestion.com.com.

Anyway, let's get into today's podcast episode because, yes, there's a lot to talk about my ride that I did with Casper yesterday. So anyway, the other day, well, actually, this was probably about a month ago now, my friend messaged me and was like, Esme, I know that we're hacking buddies, we do a lot of riding together. So this is my friend that has the horse called Stella, who is, I'm pretty sure she's an Appaloose across thoroughbred, so she can be speedy with her thoroughbred side. And she was like, Esmey, how about we do this fun ride, charity ride? I guess there's lots different names that you could call it. So some people call it a sponsored ride, some people call it a charity ride, charity ride. I guess there's lots different names that you could call it. So, um, some people

call it a sponsored ride. Some people call it a charity ride. Some people call it a farm ride. But basically,

it's an organized ride, um, that you can do with friends. Anyway, so she booked, she booked me in

and I was like, perfect. Um, this is great. Anyway, long story short, there were lots different reasons why I was almost not able to do it.

But, hazaar, we managed, I managed to get there in the end.

There were also lots different things, I was like, which horse do I take?

So anyway, I decided to take Casper in the end.

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