I decided to be a masochist yesterday and took the stirrups off my dressage saddle to have a schooling session without stirrups to improve my position. We started by trying to achieve the perfect walk-halt-walk transition, we did 16 in a row until we finally got a nice one, then continued on in trot, actually achieving a nice working trot, although not an overly active one, but it was nice and regular and rhythmic. We then started canter, he did a very nice circle in canter, quite balanced and sane without threatening to perform his "head down and tank" or his "zoom into the corner bucking" tricks, I turned to go down the long side and....
Tally carried me over a 3' triple bar I still had jumps set up and he spied it, by the time I realised he was three strides out and I had no brakes. He cleared it beautifully with me going "eep", then took off around the arena. He was impossible to schooling after that as he was too busy prancing, arching his neck and trying to sidle towards other jumps, so I took him hacking.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment