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dancing_crow) wrote2009-08-23 05:08 pm
dancing_crow) wrote2009-08-23 05:08 pm
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lesson this morning before the hot
started on the horse a long as a bus, got him going (mostly) forward and round, and his person came and needed a ride because she is going to Australia and he is going... somewhere else. So the nice people in the barn got Blondie the Tank tacked up andwe I worked some more.
The last time I rode him I am not sure why I didn't fall off - he was wound up and hadn't been ridden for a couple days and they were Making Awful Noises in the trees behind the ring. He semi-bolted a couple times. This time he'd been ridden more recently, but not by anyone wanting much from him. He was kind of irked at being asked to come round and go, and it took a solid 20 minutes of work, with me resolutely not fighting him, to get some nice stuff from him. But we ended well.
I am waiting to hear from an owner about a mare, if she isn't taken I want to try her.
I have to find out how much board is in various places and if I can come close.
I have a lesson on a potential pony/cob on Friday. It is a half lease, and honestly I feel I might have better luck talking to some of these barns with my Barn Pixie routine because all she wants is someone to ride him a couple times a week. I can do that for free, or stalls, I don't have to pay for it. Or maybe I do, if I want a different level of horse.
Leonor offered me one of their horses, but I don't know if she asked Bob first. I'd take Kaboose like a shot, but with both Bob and his daughter riding her there is some competition. Penny I can keep working on where she is.
mrm.
started on the horse a long as a bus, got him going (mostly) forward and round, and his person came and needed a ride because she is going to Australia and he is going... somewhere else. So the nice people in the barn got Blondie the Tank tacked up and
The last time I rode him I am not sure why I didn't fall off - he was wound up and hadn't been ridden for a couple days and they were Making Awful Noises in the trees behind the ring. He semi-bolted a couple times. This time he'd been ridden more recently, but not by anyone wanting much from him. He was kind of irked at being asked to come round and go, and it took a solid 20 minutes of work, with me resolutely not fighting him, to get some nice stuff from him. But we ended well.
I am waiting to hear from an owner about a mare, if she isn't taken I want to try her.
I have to find out how much board is in various places and if I can come close.
I have a lesson on a potential pony/cob on Friday. It is a half lease, and honestly I feel I might have better luck talking to some of these barns with my Barn Pixie routine because all she wants is someone to ride him a couple times a week. I can do that for free, or stalls, I don't have to pay for it. Or maybe I do, if I want a different level of horse.
Leonor offered me one of their horses, but I don't know if she asked Bob first. I'd take Kaboose like a shot, but with both Bob and his daughter riding her there is some competition. Penny I can keep working on where she is.
mrm.