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dancing_crow) wrote2009-06-09 06:53 am
dancing_crow) wrote2009-06-09 06:53 am
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Kaboose, the Red Queen, has returned!!
She has been steadily schooled over fences for the last couple months, and "loves it" (where I am not entirely clear that horses love anything besides food and eachother, although they can certainly be interested in various projects). I set up a bunch of things to leap over, with mixed success. We made it over everything. My position needs tons of work. I was dubious about some of the fences and that is deadly for making it over. Once I lowered a couple so I had no excuse, then we did much better.
I had forgotten how poised I was on the knife edge between fear and exhilaration when riding this horse. Some of the fear dissipates as I ride her more, and trust her more, but that first rush is kind of deadly.
I rode Ruby briefly. The firewood was delivered while I was working her, so a lot of the lesson was an exercise in distraction.
I brought out Penny, and was thinking about popping over the same set of jumps I'd set for Kaboose, but I was so dubious about them I decided I'd just set back the whole process by weeks. So we did trot-walk-one-stride-trot-again until she was much more forward and round and worked on some canter departs. We did hop over a couple of fences, but nothing I knew we might argue about. I was grateful to be on Penny and almost bored, after the excitement with Kaboose.
There is a combined test coming up at the end of the month, and I want to take Penny or Kaboose in it. I think we have to do the shortest fences (2feet/60cm) because it is my courage that is failing. I don't even know, at the moment, how to start making the decision.
She has been steadily schooled over fences for the last couple months, and "loves it" (where I am not entirely clear that horses love anything besides food and eachother, although they can certainly be interested in various projects). I set up a bunch of things to leap over, with mixed success. We made it over everything. My position needs tons of work. I was dubious about some of the fences and that is deadly for making it over. Once I lowered a couple so I had no excuse, then we did much better.
I had forgotten how poised I was on the knife edge between fear and exhilaration when riding this horse. Some of the fear dissipates as I ride her more, and trust her more, but that first rush is kind of deadly.
I rode Ruby briefly. The firewood was delivered while I was working her, so a lot of the lesson was an exercise in distraction.
I brought out Penny, and was thinking about popping over the same set of jumps I'd set for Kaboose, but I was so dubious about them I decided I'd just set back the whole process by weeks. So we did trot-walk-one-stride-trot-again until she was much more forward and round and worked on some canter departs. We did hop over a couple of fences, but nothing I knew we might argue about. I was grateful to be on Penny and almost bored, after the excitement with Kaboose.
There is a combined test coming up at the end of the month, and I want to take Penny or Kaboose in it. I think we have to do the shortest fences (2feet/60cm) because it is my courage that is failing. I don't even know, at the moment, how to start making the decision.