I had a lesson on the horse named Dick this morning and it was a challenge. I don't know if it's because I haven't ridden him in a month or the new arena had gotten him out of sorts but he was trying everything on. We concentrated mainly on the canter and stretching out his legs at a trot to lengthen his stride. It was interesting but difficult getting a horse that just wasn't into the ride to go through witch hats and sticking to the 12 metre markers that I was being instructed to do paces at when called out.
I'd love to try and practise a modified version of these exercises on Teddy but I have to go interstate on business tomorrow morning and will be gone for a few days so Steve will be left on farm duty. When it comes to Teddy I think this will pretty much be Steve looking out the window to make sure nothing terrible has happened to him and that's it.
So it looks like I wont be back in the saddle until Thursday (late meeting Wednesday night). Wouldn't it be great to not have to work! I can dream all about it because that's as close to retirement that I'm likely to get for quite a while.
P.S. I like the pic of Teddy with the sun behind him.
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