Lisa Trowse said One week down. It has been a combination of long days, and hard work, emotional, mental and physical fitness tested. I have had a roller coaster of a week from being injured on the second day, feeling like I was out of my depth, hoping my horse would calm down as I wasn't able to ride him. We have been told that if we think this week was hard wait for next!! I have tried to stay really up and positive but today I think I had a wobble.
Just asking myself that maybe I should get a nice little manageable pony that I can have fun with, and then I look at Jack and give myself a slap. He is so lovely when he is good, and when he is scared he is horrid :0) Everyone headed out for a meal this evening but I was still taking the time it takes. He needed to stretch his legs and have some exercise and then refused to go back in his stable, and then was all antsy when I tried to skip him out, and everything takes sooooooo long. So I smiled and waved everyone off to have a nice evening and cursed him a little! Quiet evening in on my own with some study is in order.
We had a nice play today in the playground and I got some great liberty in trot, calm and maintaining direction with a bit of help from one of the instructors. And I managed some nice figure of 8. I practised the s pattern first getting jack to really follow a feel, and then gave him some sharp education about eating grass when I haven't given permission. Then we got some good figure 8 in trot. We also played with the tyres,and he just loves to stand on them and watch everything going on. We also got his head through the car wash. I didn't push it and retreated as it was quite breezy and he did a really good try. Had a couple of free hours today so got some shopping for food next week so I don't have to think about it.
Time for study now ... Xx
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