I think your baby wins for worst weekend plans ?
. I do sometimes wonder what the point is in having a horse when I ride maybe 60 times a year!
It's not a problem to share, only that I want to ride her on her own so the issue isn't clouded by her reactions to other horses. anyway, she did her indoor hacking. bucketing it down so I think we will do the same again tomorrow.
we all need something to motivate us, now and then, hehe, i wasn't sure about it until I saw it on her but figured it would be easy enough to sell on if it didn't suit her.
Went to see my boy work, got very wet. He is getting all grown up now
don't blame you! i did pause my pity party about having all the facilities and nothing to ride this morning, because pottering around under a nice roof sure beats bogging about in the rain.
. We’re lucky to still be on nighttime turnout so it does him no harm!
oh bugger! bleddy things!
I've done daily Mon to Fri, it was sodden and flooded enough yesterday and no doubt it will be same tomorrow lol ??I am gearing myself up for it. Really can’t be arsed but dog needs walking and Bog really does need the regular exercise so at least it’s two birds one stone. I can’t justify not hacking when I’ve got the daylight to do it in.
Bleh. Role on spring
Yikes, don’t blame you, it wasn’t quite that bad here. I did wonder if I was completely abandoning my sanity and if I was going to come back in one piece before I left ?
this experience is pretty common I think, and it's one of the things that made me convinced that the belief some people have that you should have an established counter canter before asking for a change is often rubbish in the long run
That's interesting. Rose has a good expressive correct change when she does it all for herself but she was consistently offering it instead of CC, which isn't much good if she's still required to do CC in tests, which is why we focused on getting a good consistent CC first. Now she's being asked to do it on the aids, or not at all it's a bit of a mess and tbh it is all to do with submission. The eventers all did FCs in the jumping phase, never taught them just natural to maintain balance with a change of direction and all were happy to do CC in tests. They never got to a level of needing to do FCs on command so it never became an issue. On the plus side, she seems pretty happy to have a go on either rein and she's enthusiastic. She's changed a lot since S has been riding her, seems generally more forward thinking. Obviously says something about my riding!!this experience is pretty common I think, and it's one of the things that made me convinced that the belief some people have that you should have an established counter canter before asking for a change is often rubbish in the long run
even when you have that, you still get the enthusiastic horse offering things all over the place and you need to re-establish a bit of submission and patience. These days I think it's easier for everyone for the horse to learn a change when they offer them to save their balance, and then you can just go back to "sometimes you change, sometimes you don't" and that takes care of the counter canter by itself.