because I had my hand out in front of me, so I had one hand that touched his bum was gooey,

it was delicious, it was gorgeous.

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

In today's episode, I'm going to be talking about

jumping my horse Joey again, screaming influences, and also how it's now ball season. 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

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Okay.

Anyway, let's get into today's episode.

So in my last one, I was telling you how I had my first jumping lesson in over a month

on Joey on that day.

So I was like, wish me luck.

Anyway, I've actually had two jumping lessons since then.

And I can't lie, lie beforehand I was a little bit

nervous so there's been many reasons why I haven't jumped Joey for a little while number one is

I've just been focusing on our flatwork we've kind of taken everything back to basics and that's been

really really beneficial for him his flatwork and everything is looking so good because when it comes to jumping, a lot of it is just, you know, the horse does the jump. You need to do all the stuff in between. So a lot of that is working on your canter and canter used to be Joey's kind of probably weakest pace, I'd say, but now he's feeling so good. he's feeling so strong. We've also been doing a lot of

hacking as well with him. Also, part of that is because in the summer I do like to give my horses

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