Toyah
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Sat here feeling rather deflated and frustrated as I write this wondering what else I can literally do to help my mare and me! and would like some advice from outsiders, please. I am ready to give up on it all to be honest.
This year I really wanted to do well eventing, only 90 aiming for 100, last year the season was cut short due to an injury and up until then I was, we was having a blast.
She has all the scope in the world and beyond and yet her brain is the size of a pea and I cant get it in to her head at all.
I have had her since she was 2 and is now 10. So not a new partnership and I know her inside out. maybe that is the problem. She is a TB and very looky.
I have accepted she is always going to be hit, miss and maybe at events but I just want to complete.
2 weeks ago she went round Borde Hill no problem in the SJ, this weekend 3 refusals in the SJ ring and we were down and out.
We have lessons, lessons and more lessons. I have tried different instructors, her saddle is checked regularly so I dont think it is anything like that, its just, well I don't know.
So, do I keep plugging away at it, or decide to bite the bullet and find something I can have fun on, as at the moment I am just not enjoying it with her.
I am entered for another event in a couple of weeks, do I go for it and just see how it goes or get someone else to ride her, a professional maybe and see if its me that is the issue?
Please help. Any advice welcome.
T
This year I really wanted to do well eventing, only 90 aiming for 100, last year the season was cut short due to an injury and up until then I was, we was having a blast.
She has all the scope in the world and beyond and yet her brain is the size of a pea and I cant get it in to her head at all.
I have had her since she was 2 and is now 10. So not a new partnership and I know her inside out. maybe that is the problem. She is a TB and very looky.
I have accepted she is always going to be hit, miss and maybe at events but I just want to complete.
2 weeks ago she went round Borde Hill no problem in the SJ, this weekend 3 refusals in the SJ ring and we were down and out.
We have lessons, lessons and more lessons. I have tried different instructors, her saddle is checked regularly so I dont think it is anything like that, its just, well I don't know.
So, do I keep plugging away at it, or decide to bite the bullet and find something I can have fun on, as at the moment I am just not enjoying it with her.
I am entered for another event in a couple of weeks, do I go for it and just see how it goes or get someone else to ride her, a professional maybe and see if its me that is the issue?
Please help. Any advice welcome.
T