scats
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I haven’t, but I’m not someone who cries very often. I have, however, felt extremely frustrated with myself and my performance and doubted myself afterwards. I had a real battle with myself recently because I felt that I was expecting too much of my horse and that I was being unfair asking for ‘more’ when I felt she was already giving me a lot (granted she doesn’t always!).
I would love to be able to afford a horse who finds all the dressage stuff easy, but I don’t, I have a lovely little horse who is a great all-rounder but she is far happier tootling out hacking than putting any major effort in in the school. I teeter constantly on ‘am I pushing her for my own benefit’ but I suppose we could argue that to some extent we do that the moment we sit on them.
My current trainer is great- we had a chat the other day that I felt Millie had gone flat in the school and I was worried about pushing her and making her sour. Trainer advised me to keep her completely out of the school for a few weeks and just go hacking and do lots of canter work around the fields. I think she recognised I needed that for me too.
I would love to be able to afford a horse who finds all the dressage stuff easy, but I don’t, I have a lovely little horse who is a great all-rounder but she is far happier tootling out hacking than putting any major effort in in the school. I teeter constantly on ‘am I pushing her for my own benefit’ but I suppose we could argue that to some extent we do that the moment we sit on them.
My current trainer is great- we had a chat the other day that I felt Millie had gone flat in the school and I was worried about pushing her and making her sour. Trainer advised me to keep her completely out of the school for a few weeks and just go hacking and do lots of canter work around the fields. I think she recognised I needed that for me too.