jenbleep
Well-Known Member
im sure this was posted a while ago but i cant find it! anyway....
......i was riding Frankie at the riding school today as a 'trial run' as im taking him there for lessons in a couple of weeks, and i wanted to see what he was like in the indoor school. the day that i booked the school with the manager i said i was riding Frankie, and she said 'that piebald that lives down the road, xxxxx used to ride him?' and she gave me a look. like 'oh my god you want to bring him here?!' i asked why, and she said because he is so sharp and spooky and xxxx who used to ride him had some nasty accidents and close calls......i was like 'brilliant! thanks for letting me know that!' i know he was spooky but nothing like that.....oh and she said 'well hes foreign, so what do you expect?!' oh well......
.....then i rode him this morning, he was on his toes as you might expect, took him in the school and he was spooking at jump wings, the walls,
a dead bird that was in there
and generally being a toss pot. i was a little nervous, which i dont think helped. i managed to calm down, and Frankie started to work really nicely. whenever he would have a spak attack i would calmly ask him to not be so silly and walk/trot on, and he did, albeit quite tense. towards the end though he really started to stretch and relax, and i was very happy
a woman at the yard asked me when i walked out of the school, 'is that mad Frank?' i said yes, and she said ' oh xxxx used to ride him' i then said 'i think xxxxx is a bit more confident than i am!' and she replied 'well xxxxx was crazy!'
on the walk home i was thinking, perhaps Frankie has just grown up a bit, or maybe because i am a quiet rider who doesnt get wound up so easily (ok i can be a scaredy cat, but i hide it
) i calm Frankie down. and because his old rider xxxxx was 'crazy' it just wound Frankie up even more.
does anyone have the faintest idea what im talking about or am i talking (****)!!!
......i was riding Frankie at the riding school today as a 'trial run' as im taking him there for lessons in a couple of weeks, and i wanted to see what he was like in the indoor school. the day that i booked the school with the manager i said i was riding Frankie, and she said 'that piebald that lives down the road, xxxxx used to ride him?' and she gave me a look. like 'oh my god you want to bring him here?!' i asked why, and she said because he is so sharp and spooky and xxxx who used to ride him had some nasty accidents and close calls......i was like 'brilliant! thanks for letting me know that!' i know he was spooky but nothing like that.....oh and she said 'well hes foreign, so what do you expect?!' oh well......
.....then i rode him this morning, he was on his toes as you might expect, took him in the school and he was spooking at jump wings, the walls,
a woman at the yard asked me when i walked out of the school, 'is that mad Frank?' i said yes, and she said ' oh xxxx used to ride him' i then said 'i think xxxxx is a bit more confident than i am!' and she replied 'well xxxxx was crazy!'
on the walk home i was thinking, perhaps Frankie has just grown up a bit, or maybe because i am a quiet rider who doesnt get wound up so easily (ok i can be a scaredy cat, but i hide it
does anyone have the faintest idea what im talking about or am i talking (****)!!!
