New York was full of Opinions about being asked to flex at the canter. I'm not sure if he just didn't want to, or if I was asking in such a way that it confused him--admittedly it's a lot of doing different things with different limbs that I'm still sort of wrapping my head around. I knew I was in for trouble when, at the walk, he kept going into a ( Read more... )

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Last night's lesson was good--there was a dash of "but you don't ride on Tuesdays and YOU ARE MY THIRD LESSON TODAY NOW" but over all New York was a good boy...not too naughty and not too pokey. Wanted to fall through transitions but, well.

It was a day of "Shorten him up!  Shorter! Shorter!" becuase my brain was stumbling over doing one thing with ( Read more... )

No riding lesson last week, so of course this week New York had to be the laziest I've ever seen him. My thighs are full of ow as a result ( Read more... )

I went ahead and moved my riding lesson from Friday to Sunday, because wheenver we had make up lessons on Sunday, New York seemed much more mellow. I don't know if it's something different in him or in me on Sundays, but not having the TALLY HO! canter moments is a lot more enjoyable for me ( Read more... )

Soemtimes I wonder if I'm not one of my trainer's strangest students.

On one end of the spectrum, you have the teenage girl who was bought a very nice 3 year old QH filly and who takes riding lessons 5 days a week.

And then you have me, the nearly 28 year old who has been plugging along at lessons once a week for two and a half years. I have no idea ( Read more... )

Moved lesson from Friday night to Sunday at noon, because the blizzard on Friday was not really conductive to lessoning ( Read more... )

So it's cold out now--supposed to "feel like 22" by the time my lesson rolls around. My right wrist still hurts for unknown reasons and my lesson last week was canceled. I never have a particularly awesome lesson after a week off, and I already have issues not letting the reins slide through my hands...so I fully expect to have a collapsing/rushing ( Read more... )

Alright, I haven't done a pony ramble in awhile ( Read more... )