Did another lesson with Arwen on Saturday and she is definitely back to her old tricks, otherwise known as "Tune Katie Out". Had some interesting jumping, where god d****t horse, I just want you to go at the pace I'm dictating! Of course, Ponyface had other ideas. I think she felt the pace I was asking her to go was just too damn slow, even though we were only jumping a crossrail and a small vertical. Either way, she felt great. Definitely a little stiffer to the left like she was before, but I think thats due to being out of work for almost a month. Will definitely keep working on lateral/bending stuff like before, but I also really REALLY want to get a chiro out to do some adjustments on here. Just got to come up with the moola, and with some other stuff going on, its going to be a few months before that can happen.
So, just completely thankful she appears to be sound right now. But, also disappointed that we took a backwards step in the progress department. She didn't appear to have lost too much conditioning, but you can tell that she is a little bit out of shape at this point. Just small things like the bending, and then also she is tending to lean on my hands a lot towards the end of the ride when she's tired. I think this also translates into ignoring me and my leg, when she just doesn't want to get that rear end under her. Because the last real jumping lesson we had, she was on a slower pace, but with a lot of impulsion and was taking larger jumps than we were doing on Saturday. We'll see...I just want her to stay sound at this point.
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