INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Project Willow. This is a way of tracking progress and giving reports on the pony I am schooling at the moment, Willow. She is a 14.1hh Arab x Welsh mare, 12 years old.

Willow arrived about 7pm and settled right in. Bounced down to the field on her toes, but as soon as I put her through the gate and let her go, her head went straight down to eat grass. That's the Welsh pony coming through! She was a bit wary of the alpacas at first, as they were of her, but they are in separate paddocks with a raceway between them, so they eyed each other for a while then ignored one another for the rest of the day. I put pony's rug on at about 8pm and she was good to handle, no problems at all. Fed her some apples and gave her some cuddles, made sure she'd found her water drinker, then left her to it.