Weekend Plans

[shortstuff99]

Love this! Topaz came second at her next AF so qualified for the finals, bloody horses keeping you on your toes!

Interestingly, Skylla has swayed dressage judges in her favour not sure how and she gets called Spanish all the time ??‍

Who wants a boring consistent horse?

Maybe the knee action? Although the pictures I've seen of her she doesn't look Spanish to me ?.

 

[shortstuff99]

Yeah, northcote indoor is very, very scary apparently. Completed a long arena test in approximately the bottom two thirds of the arena - couldn't get near the A end

Woooo welcome to the 40% club ?. Its when you desperately try to point that you do know what you're doing sometimes....we need a sh*tdressage page to go with the eventing one.

 

[HufflyPuffly]

I just post on the eventing one with my failed dressage too, they’ve been very welcoming ??

I think it’s because Skylla is grey, very uphill and ‘different’ but she’s had a few people guess she’s Spanish ??‍

 

[Pippity]

At the weekend, I had one of those hacks where you're beaming every step of the way. We managed to find a long enough stretch free of pedestrians to have a little canter, Blue had great fun trotting through knee-deep puddles, and she was even happy to go in front some of the way.

I had to cancel my lesson last week due to a flooded school, so was determined to go ahead with tonight's even if it was so misty my instructor had a few issues seeing me at times! We absolutely cracked a few issues tonight. I've learned the knack of keeping her straight when she tries to cart me off to one side or the other, we got a lovely soft rein back, and she stood still for a whole two minutes while I discussed things with my instructor.

I'm really pleased with this instructor. She's very patient, very much a fan of out-thinking the horse, and it's all about making the horse want to work with you. Blue's doing far better with her than a more combative instructor I tried previously.

Edit: I do think it's hilarious, though. Other people on this board: "I just can't quite get my canter pirouettes right and my tempis don't have the power behind them that I'm looking for." Me: "We trotted in a mostly straight-ish line!"

 

[DressageCob]

I had a fabulous pre-work lesson this morning. Big lad's canter was enormous. Super uphill and powerful. Winter really is his season. It was a full body workout trying to go with it ?