What does stop mean?
It was threatening rain this morning but it held off long enough for me to ride the boys outside. I decided to do canter/trot transitions with Jazz as preparation for teaching him flying change by shortening the trot interval in future sessions. There was only one real problem. He was so chuffed at being allowed to canter, and he has so much breath and so much energy, that he simply continued to canter and canter and canter and totally ignore my down aid. I'm afraid we had to resort to one or two "industrial strength" halts before he got the message. Then he got all over-excited about the ups, and was flinging legs in all directions, or bouncing on the spot, and taking any which canter lead he felt like at the time. He was having fun! We got some very decent stuff in the end and he'd had a jolly good workout by the time we got there, which I was also pleased about.
Zip did some good stuff for ten minutes for a three year old. I don't think he's ready yet to have his joints subjected to too many circles or to any canter work inside the confines of an arena, so we're limited in what we can achieve. I'm determined not to stress him when he's not even three and a half yet. I measured him when I got off and he is just about 16.2. He's going to end up a lovely size.
Guess what my vets sent me today? A statement showing that I owed them £1779.08 including £51.82p for failing to pay a bill which they never sent me last month. The reason they never sent a bill, presumably, is because I don't owe them a penny. Honestly, I don't hear a peep out of them once I've paid them and walked away, not even a phone call after a week to find out how things are going, and then they send me a bill suggesting not only that I owe them a fortune but that I've failed to pay them on time. I give up!
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posted by cptrayes @ 7:52 PM
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Well, you wanted a cross country horse that could gallop all day. I guess you have one now! *VBWG* "Industrial strength" halts are just fine in "industrial" situations. It's as I've always said, "If there were a cliff there and you were about to go over, would you be kind about asking your horse to stop?"
I have a feeling those vets are in for a rather unpleasant experience dealing with you. Sounds like a load of nonsense to me, but nothing I wouldn't expect from then considering their "fine (hah!)" follow-up efforts after the surgery.
That's just what I am aiming to do now. Canter with a few steps of trot in between leads to work towards flying changes. I have never done one.
Jazz's antics made me smile. It is so much more fun when they are having fun too.
As for the vet - I wouldn't want to be in his shoes!
Yes, th esenior partner and I did have an interesting "conversation".
ML that's the only way I never tried to teach Tetley flying change. I have no idea at all why it didn't occur to me because it's so utterly logical. I think you'll get it - when he left he had just about got it from, as I recall right to left, but he couldn't figure out left to right at all.
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A little word on flying change from my previous trainer Gigi.
He advises to put HIGH boots on the hindlegs. Because if the horse may touch his hindlegs while changing he won't do again. Gigi has found that horses wearing high boots on the hindlegs learn faster teh flying change.
Gigi successfully rode Linda asking her doing PERfECT flying change on both lead staright from the canter, he JUST changed the bend and did "something" and hop!... but that was HIM. Despite his difficult personnality, he IS an excellent rider with lots of tact and feel ... just wish he had a personality transplant!
I am glad my typo amused you. I could not remember if it was a "s" or a "c" ^-^
Regarding trainer, you need to "try" them, then ponder the positive and negative. Please don't be like some EEers who are looking for the perfect trainer walking on Earth! Nobody is perfect LOL!
I agree with Muriel about trainers. Take a lesson and if you hate it, don't go back. It is still money worth being spent because: #1 you learn something about what you don't want, #2 you will learn at least one useful thing, #3 your horse gets some experience
The other thing to do is go watch a lesson. I was not impressed with AS in the lesson I watched before mine, so I didn't expect much. For me, it ended up being a good training session for Tucker an a new place and a bit of a test to see just how willing he was to accept the driving aids--something that had been elusive before the ulcer medication. Too much money to spend for so little, still, but something useful came of it.
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