Hi everyone!
This last lesson
we were taking it easy, as the horses have been off their work for a while. It
shows too. The horse are always more jumpy, and fast paced, and spooky the week
back after new years.
I was riding Dandy
as usual, and he is looking pretty good! We call him Big Bird because he is a
big chicken, its surprising how spooky he is when he is such a big animal. We
only did some basic flat work this week, because of how hot some of the horses were. We
had 2 newer horses in our lesson as well. Dee who I think is a chestnut Quarter
Horse, and Luke who is a Percheron cross.
We worked on
flexion at both walk and trot, and Dandy was going good around the whole arena.
He only got skiddish a couple of times :) We all line up at one end of the
arena so we could individually work on flexion at the canter. Dandy was
fantastic!!! He really was a pro! (I love you boy!!) Luke got so scared,
because he was on his own at the other end of the arena! He bolted, and crow
hopped, and bucked. He ran straight in behind patches and hid between us while
we were parked at the end. All the horses reacted quite well for having a huge
horse barreling towards them! Thank god patches is a good old man <3. I
thought Dandy would shy but he didn't! Yay Dandy :D
Then we did
another group trot, and then a long reined walk around. That was a lazy lesson,
but clearly it is better to work the horse back into the lessons, then to have
someone get hurt!
Luv you bye!!
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