PapaverFollis
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Thanks for the input re. Canter everyone who posted. I shall see what can be done. I may have to work towards a bit more quality in the trot before she's really ready. Husband has left me to it for a couple of weeks so no doubt I've started to get ahead of myself without him telling me to slow the *cough* down. I've been having some very jolly canters on the stubble so perhaps have got over excited. Yes, DabDab... we very much can canter in a field! :lol: Beast has made it clear that hunting would be her preferred sport thanks very much (ears pricked, straight at the hedge line... insufficient training to be able to stop from the seat at that point :lol: we managed to avoid actually jumping the hedge though!)
In the school she just wants to explode up into a massive canter and charge round going "weeeeeee!" I want her to pop into a small, controlled canter do a few strides then come back into the good trot again. So there's a conflict of interest and I haven't exactly set her up for success by blasting up the stubble a few times really! But we had similar with trot at first too so I'm hopeful that we'll muddle through. I am sans instructor now though since moving 400 miles away from mine.
I've had two recent schoolmaster lessons. One was more German school and the horse was horribly wooden and heavy on the hands. Didn't get much out of that. The other was on Ketchup of Cobs Can fame (leans very much towards French school) and she was marvellous...
In the school she just wants to explode up into a massive canter and charge round going "weeeeeee!" I want her to pop into a small, controlled canter do a few strides then come back into the good trot again. So there's a conflict of interest and I haven't exactly set her up for success by blasting up the stubble a few times really! But we had similar with trot at first too so I'm hopeful that we'll muddle through. I am sans instructor now though since moving 400 miles away from mine.
I've had two recent schoolmaster lessons. One was more German school and the horse was horribly wooden and heavy on the hands. Didn't get much out of that. The other was on Ketchup of Cobs Can fame (leans very much towards French school) and she was marvellous...