Learning the job

[Hattikins]

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Don't worry - I'm not even thinking about giving up with her

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*phew* brilliant

just checking!!

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Also - if I copy what you have been doing perhaps I'll win an intro next season - now that would make my year!!

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im watching this space

im sure you and Jemima are going to be ultra competitive and successful next year - soo looking forward to reading all your event reports

 

[Bounty]

He did indeed - from what I can gather Jo used to despair of him, a typical 'boy' who just wanted to go fast and jump high

Ask her if she remembers Dominic Northmore, I'm sure she will, for all the wrong reasons!

 

[SpottedCat]

ISZ - I just wanted to say thankyou - this has been a really interesting thread, I have enjoyed reading the answers, and it has reminded me that trying to push myself too fast and comparing myself to pros is unhelpful and counter-productive! It is very hard not to do that though...mind you, at the current rate of cancellations, I may never event again, so that would solve the problem for me

 

[seabiscuit]

I have come across more than several horses that have just taken years to be produced for eventing; but have ended up being very good event horses thanks to people having never ending faith in them that it was always going to come right in the end.
I think today we are under such pressure to produce the 4 year old and 5 year old for all the young horse classes whereas it seems that 10 years ago a horse would not start eventing until it was 6 or 7 and this is what I have read in books written by the pros. I think that someone said this, it seems that a good number of the 4/5 year olds that do well at that age we never see again like Midnight Magic.

 

[dieseldog]

It's not just a case of learning the job, it's wether they can learn the job with you. Some people and horses just don't fit together well. There is nothing wrong with either half but together they just don't make a whole unit. It doesn't matter how many lessons you have you just aren't ever going to get it together as well as someone else might. Look at Murphy Himself, Ian Stark and ginny leng, all world class but you needed the right combination.

I think its harder to make a decision in that situation than wether or not the horse has talent.