winning and losing
Mar. 8th, 2009 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_crowWhen I took the red mare out on Thursday we had a series of Gigantic battles around whether she was or was not capable of putting her feet into the running water that made the centers of some parts of the trail into small streams. Eventually we went forward, in extremely erratic leaps and bounds punctuated with stops to quiver with a combination of terror and indignation. Where the streams were not present we did very well, but I was wondering what her take-away message had been from the episode. Apparently I won Thursday. Going out yesterday we went along under the power lines and she was confident and forward the whole way, even through the horror that was rivulets of running water.
I love this mare. She is a good match for my neuroses and strengths, she is funny, and we can have great fun together. Leonor was talking of trying to find a summer lease for her, meaning someone else, and my heart sank. I think Bob will talk her out of it, and in the meantime I am scheming about whether or not it is something I might take on. I have the list of schooling shows for Xenophon Farm, and I have started learning tests T1 to First 1. I have no idea what we might be capable of this spring until we can address ourselves to the ring, and it has not been visible for months. Bob thought he might like to take Penny, the daughter, so a couple of dressage tests as well, which would be hysterical and fun.
Hannah - where do I find out what test to learn for combined tests? All I could find on USEA was for CCI* competitions, and we are SO not there!! I think the mare would have fun jumping, but again - the snow has to dissipate before I know anything much about how much we lost over the winter.
I love this mare. She is a good match for my neuroses and strengths, she is funny, and we can have great fun together. Leonor was talking of trying to find a summer lease for her, meaning someone else, and my heart sank. I think Bob will talk her out of it, and in the meantime I am scheming about whether or not it is something I might take on. I have the list of schooling shows for Xenophon Farm, and I have started learning tests T1 to First 1. I have no idea what we might be capable of this spring until we can address ourselves to the ring, and it has not been visible for months. Bob thought he might like to take Penny, the daughter, so a couple of dressage tests as well, which would be hysterical and fun.
Hannah - where do I find out what test to learn for combined tests? All I could find on USEA was for CCI* competitions, and we are SO not there!! I think the mare would have fun jumping, but again - the snow has to dissipate before I know anything much about how much we lost over the winter.