soulfull
Well-Known Member
Did my first W&T on new horse yesterday. It was at home so no excuses.
In the warm up he was fairly good, a little excited and tiny bit nappy towards friends but wasn't allowed to get away with it so then worked in very nicely
Into arena Micah tenses and isn't really listening so mom goes to pot went wrong in test and queried my caller had the right test (oops sorry chris!)
Whole test was nose poking out and tense. Oh well at least he didn't piss off saying 'I am NOT doing dressage, like my last one'
Back in the warm up he decided he had finished and started napping badly to the gate and other horses leaving arena
Now he is a bendy bouncy sort so NOT the sort you can smack as he would explode, (i'm sure at least some of you will know the type)
he ignored leg so I tapped him, he didn't take any notice of that so tried spinning, couldn't do that either cos mom had him.
I growled and put leg on again, off he went sweet as a nut lol If he did this once he did it a dozen times. So cruel mom made him circle towards and away from the gate until he did it nicely
. Then took him down the other end of the school and got off.
I think we need to practice going from one arena to the other, and other horses leaving (have done bits of others leaving obviously not enough)
we got 56. something and a 10th rosie always nice
Lots of friends turned out to support me which was so lovely!! One even commented on what a lovely position I have
Another lesson learnt
He does sometimes make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, little sod....with my duff ankle I just can't afford to hit the deck and I think it makes me extra cautious, but there was no way he was going to get away with napping
In the warm up he was fairly good, a little excited and tiny bit nappy towards friends but wasn't allowed to get away with it so then worked in very nicely
Into arena Micah tenses and isn't really listening so mom goes to pot went wrong in test and queried my caller had the right test (oops sorry chris!)
Whole test was nose poking out and tense. Oh well at least he didn't piss off saying 'I am NOT doing dressage, like my last one'
Back in the warm up he decided he had finished and started napping badly to the gate and other horses leaving arena
Now he is a bendy bouncy sort so NOT the sort you can smack as he would explode, (i'm sure at least some of you will know the type)
he ignored leg so I tapped him, he didn't take any notice of that so tried spinning, couldn't do that either cos mom had him.
I growled and put leg on again, off he went sweet as a nut lol If he did this once he did it a dozen times. So cruel mom made him circle towards and away from the gate until he did it nicely
I think we need to practice going from one arena to the other, and other horses leaving (have done bits of others leaving obviously not enough)
we got 56. something and a 10th rosie always nice
Lots of friends turned out to support me which was so lovely!! One even commented on what a lovely position I have
Another lesson learnt
He does sometimes make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, little sod....with my duff ankle I just can't afford to hit the deck and I think it makes me extra cautious, but there was no way he was going to get away with napping
