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The sun was shining today and me and TW went off in the box for a new adventure!!! Today we went to Southwell Racecourse! It was fascinating! First off TW chatted with the Lucys and then some other people that came with their horses. I especially liked one called Cheeky. They chatted about what they wanted to achieve from the session then we got tacked up and off we went.

We had to walk between some buildings on sand and go through some gates. Then we were on a big track thing but this big track wasnt a grass track for nomming. It was a sand track for racing round!! Off me and TW went , trotty, walking, cantering around. There were loads of new things to look at, big colourful signs, rails around the track, wierd men in the middle of the track playing a game with little balls and sticks. Most odd!

TW said I seemed to have lost my brakes and we spend a while finding them again. Practising trotting and walking and stopping between the markers. I was sweating! But not puffing. TW was all unbalanced t begin with, the Lucys said her Jods were all slippery and so was the saddle. Not good. TW improved as we went round but I think she needs to be fitter. Coach Lucy said its important TW has a strong core to help me. Brack and Frank thought this was hilarious when I told them. Not sure why.

After four laps TW said I'd worked hard enough and I went back to the box for a snooze while tw had tea and cake, maybe this is to help her core? It was certainly apple cake. And apples have cores. The peeps all stood around chatting about heart rates and things and then TW gave me a bucket of lovely sweet water to see if I liked it. Nom! I necked a load of it.

Before long it was time to set off for home. Back at the yard I had a little graze and then went back to the boys for some more hay. They were impressed with my race horse day!