Cortez
Tough but Fair
I have a tendency to get lazy at home and sort of just poddle about in the "happy place". Taking the odd clinic or lesson does give us a shot in the bum, but at one I actually refused to push my horse (Spanish, and so unfamiliar type for the clinician) in the way he wanted. I did apologise afterwards, and showed them what I was trying to accomplish. He did understand after we showed our (pretty good, if I say so myself) baby piaffe, which is the way I prefer to engage this particular complicated horse. Not all horses are the same.