Tuesday's Post.

So yeah, because my blog was flagged as a potential "spam blog" I couldn't update like I wanted, so this is supposed to be Tuesday. I had worked in the morning, and I was feeling kind of lazy, so I brought in Zhar and Joey.


I rode Zhar first, because I was mad at how much I'd had to beat him to get him through the mud. He doesn't like mud apparently, because he goes through squishy hogfuel like it's hot coals. Moron.

We did some trot work, and he got upset that I had spurs on (he's had them before, lots, at the track. He's just a whiner) and decided he was going to be a giraffe. Being a giraffe however, becomes really uncomfortable when I raise my hands to the level of his head. I didn't pull on his face or anything, I just raised my hands so that the contact pressure was on the sides of his mouth instead of the bars where he could just fight it. He figured it out a bit and dropped his head, to much giving of rein and praise. He learns, just slowly. He'll have to learn to get over the mud thing though, he does live in the Lower Mainland.

I have decided that he is going to this show at the end of November as well. He will be doing the "Green" Division flat classes, and possibly a crossrail Hunter.

Then I rode Joey. One of the young girls at the barn was just finishing her lesson, and I demonstrated a posting trot without stirrups. She didn't realize quite how strong one's leg has to be to ride properly. When I work without stirrups my leg does not change. The only difference is my toe is not in the stirrup.

She was being a bit crabby about having to work, so I let her go right into a canter. We ended up just doing canter work, as she's kind of overweight. But we got some good solid work in, head at her knees working in a frame with almost no effort from my hands. It was great.

She'll probably go to the schooling show too, just for fun. If she's fit enough by then, pork chop. I like to do the jumpers with her, and she likes them too so why not?