Loading Practice

Estrid has never been on a trailer, so with only 1 week to practice before she did a 1.5hr journey to her first competition I was keen to do as many load, unloads and short journeys as possible. She travels well in terms of she stays still, doesn’t kick and has good balance but she is a nervous traveller, she has her eyes out on stalks, she’s always looking everywhere and she sweats up. So I set up the trailer with the full intention that it may take a little while for her to get used to it.

With a trailer being louder, slightly less stable and smaller I was a little nervous that she really wouldn’t enjoy the experience and what is already stressful for her would be made much worse. But Estrid being Estrid she just copes, she may not like it but she doesn’t make a fuss and she does what’s asked of her with minimal questioning. She took to loading, standing and coming off well and she even loaded straight back on after a little trip out, phew!