Post by racaille on Feb 2, 2010 17:27:41 GMT
... about nine months. Pottered off happily (and as an antidote to the fire) expecting a dressage lesson only to find the other girls booting up for the XC course. Cue panic from me. And arriving at trot on the tarmac I could see that P was lame ..... but it turned out to be a stone, so I couldn't use that as an excuse to flunk it .....
Well, it's a really baby course so I had no option but to pin on a nervous smile and try. I detest XC as fixed jumps frighten the bejesus out of me - a horse like P who does not always lift his legs up makes me think that one day he'll come down on top of me ....
Actually, he was great! We did some warm-up stuff and then tried out a little course and P got sooooo excited that after the first one he hit the ground bucking (but not nastily, just yaaaaayyyyyyyy). We also trained over countre-bas and contre-haut (steps up and down) and the down one was about 80cm so enough for the horses to think about.
Of course, being P, he has a tendency to go flatter the faster he goes and I was finding it a bit of a struggle to rebalance him - there was one little jump where I thought he was going to hit it with his nose.
Obviously I got that one all wrong.
But I was pleased that he didn't refuse anything. He isn't very brave and if he feels me hesitate, that's it, we're dead. So we both must have been going forward more positively, which is something to celebrate.
There's an XJ competition at the club in April and I'm wondering if .......
Well, it's a really baby course so I had no option but to pin on a nervous smile and try. I detest XC as fixed jumps frighten the bejesus out of me - a horse like P who does not always lift his legs up makes me think that one day he'll come down on top of me ....
Actually, he was great! We did some warm-up stuff and then tried out a little course and P got sooooo excited that after the first one he hit the ground bucking (but not nastily, just yaaaaayyyyyyyy). We also trained over countre-bas and contre-haut (steps up and down) and the down one was about 80cm so enough for the horses to think about.
Of course, being P, he has a tendency to go flatter the faster he goes and I was finding it a bit of a struggle to rebalance him - there was one little jump where I thought he was going to hit it with his nose.
Obviously I got that one all wrong.But I was pleased that he didn't refuse anything. He isn't very brave and if he feels me hesitate, that's it, we're dead. So we both must have been going forward more positively, which is something to celebrate.
There's an XJ competition at the club in April and I'm wondering if .......
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