BunnyDog
Well-Known Member
This is a glorious post to update with. ESPECIALLY if you were one of those folks who saw the videos where Cudo is rushing fences at home and we both looked wildly less skillful than we actually are and look at competitions.
Saturday I had my latest lesson with my trainer/coach Priscilla. We don't have a first show picked out yet and I am working up to doing more slowly and with an intent focus on fitness and body readiness. The horse may be like a God to me, but he is 17. We do owe him the consideration to be as ready and prepared physically as mentally. So when I went to the farm to grab him to ship down the road to my trainer's he saw my truck and trailer and decided to run for the hills.
I had to bring ALL the other horses (3) in to then be able to catch him. This put us a bit later than I wanted to be so we tacked up quickly and he might not have been as shiny and clean as he would normally have been when we would normally go to her farm. We did however make it into her ring mounted and smiling at 1 minute past our lesson start time.
She had some nice lines set up and we played around with short courses of 3-4 fences at a time. The winds were blowing 64 km per hour. So pretty windy. It was not warm and as such it was Cudo's most perfect weather. He had been turned out that morning around 5:30am, so he'd had 7 hours of turnout before we shipped for the lesson.
He was calm, he was happy and my GOD HE WAITED. Like never took over in lines and truly listened to me and waited to go to the deeper spots. It was heavenly. It was miraculous and dear I do love this horse so so very much. Admittedly there are a few moments of "rein tennis" where I reminded him in the vertical to the 2 stride that it's meant to be a 6, not a 5. But overall it was a huge step forward and I just wanted to share.
We're not perfect. There's loads more to work on. I am still in solid amounts on discomfort with both shoulders and my right elbow so I'm sure that's a factor with my unusually obvious rein actions. Next time I will take some of my meds before a lesson.
Enjoy!!!
Youtube Video:
Fun TikTok clip to music. (32 seconds):
Em
Saturday I had my latest lesson with my trainer/coach Priscilla. We don't have a first show picked out yet and I am working up to doing more slowly and with an intent focus on fitness and body readiness. The horse may be like a God to me, but he is 17. We do owe him the consideration to be as ready and prepared physically as mentally. So when I went to the farm to grab him to ship down the road to my trainer's he saw my truck and trailer and decided to run for the hills.
I had to bring ALL the other horses (3) in to then be able to catch him. This put us a bit later than I wanted to be so we tacked up quickly and he might not have been as shiny and clean as he would normally have been when we would normally go to her farm. We did however make it into her ring mounted and smiling at 1 minute past our lesson start time. She had some nice lines set up and we played around with short courses of 3-4 fences at a time. The winds were blowing 64 km per hour. So pretty windy. It was not warm and as such it was Cudo's most perfect weather. He had been turned out that morning around 5:30am, so he'd had 7 hours of turnout before we shipped for the lesson.
He was calm, he was happy and my GOD HE WAITED. Like never took over in lines and truly listened to me and waited to go to the deeper spots. It was heavenly. It was miraculous and dear I do love this horse so so very much. Admittedly there are a few moments of "rein tennis" where I reminded him in the vertical to the 2 stride that it's meant to be a 6, not a 5. But overall it was a huge step forward and I just wanted to share.
We're not perfect. There's loads more to work on. I am still in solid amounts on discomfort with both shoulders and my right elbow so I'm sure that's a factor with my unusually obvious rein actions. Next time I will take some of my meds before a lesson.
Enjoy!!!
Youtube Video:
Em
