raingodz
10th Sep 2006, 02:13 PM
Things didn't start in the best way for Saturdays lesson. My band had played a gig in Birmingham the night before and we stopped over at my eldest sisters house, got up at 7am and then drove like the wind for 2 1/2 hours to get to the RS in time for the lesson. I got there to find out that they had expected me there earlier to help out :o
The other thing was I forgot to pack my body protector too :( and when I looked in the book for who I was riding I was down to ride the new horse Murphy... so I was to ride an unknown horse with out my BP, not my ideal choice.
I went to his stable to meet him (sorry no photos yet). He is a 15.2hh piebald cob, built and looking a bit like my Muddle, but a bit lighter weight (and smaller feet).
I tacked him up, although he is not overtly impolite in his stable, he is a bit imoveable (He doesn't like backing up in the box and deffinatly won't to a voice command).
Leading him out he was very alert, not supprising considering he is only been there about a week, so it is still all very new for him.
I mounted up, he has a really nice saddle and I felt I fitted him well. His ears were still pricked up and he was looking about all the time.
We proceded in to the school, I had already been warned that he was forward going so I was using the lightest aids I could manage and they seemed to be working.
We started to warm up in open order in walk and then trot. His active walk is very pronouced, so much so that you could almost do a rising walk!
I then took lead file and we did some canter work. Murphy has a very direct transision, it was really fantastice to experience, we tired a walk to canter transition as well and it was not quite as direct, but I'm sure it will be very soon.
He is still young, and he does seem to rush in trot, especialy in corners, he actually seems to speed up in the courners.
We then moved in to jumping, firstly over some trotting poles and then over a cross pole and then a 1' jump. He was quite excited by this, the first 1' pole we tried we knocked it down, this was my fault, I pushed him on a bit into the jump and kind of forgot how sensitive he was to my leg and we just ploughed streight throung the jump in canter :eek:
The RI then asked my to take it a bit easy! So we ended up walking on the approach to the jump and then about 3 or 4 strides before I just squeeze a little with my leg and we trot up and over or a bit harder and go into canter and over. I don't know that much about horses, but I am sure he is going to be a fantastic jumper :D
I'm not sure if I was chosen to be the first in my group to ride Murphy or weather it was the luck of the draw, but I am pleased I got to ride him so soon after his arrival :D
You are not allowed to chooses the horses you ride in lessons but the yard manager for the day said she'd pencil his name next to mine in the book for my Monday lesson :D (after she had told me I wasn't allowed to take him home :rolleyes: )
I did feel that this lesson was very different to all the others I have had because I was on a new and less experienced horse, so it was more about me and the RI (since I was the first person to ride him in one of her lessons) discovering what he could and could not do.
At the end of the lesson I washed him off and retuned him to his stable, it was very exciting to get to ride a new horse in a lesson, especially as he was very forward going, but contolable as well, I can see that we could have some really exciting lessons together :D
The other thing was I forgot to pack my body protector too :( and when I looked in the book for who I was riding I was down to ride the new horse Murphy... so I was to ride an unknown horse with out my BP, not my ideal choice.
I went to his stable to meet him (sorry no photos yet). He is a 15.2hh piebald cob, built and looking a bit like my Muddle, but a bit lighter weight (and smaller feet).
I tacked him up, although he is not overtly impolite in his stable, he is a bit imoveable (He doesn't like backing up in the box and deffinatly won't to a voice command).
Leading him out he was very alert, not supprising considering he is only been there about a week, so it is still all very new for him.
I mounted up, he has a really nice saddle and I felt I fitted him well. His ears were still pricked up and he was looking about all the time.
We proceded in to the school, I had already been warned that he was forward going so I was using the lightest aids I could manage and they seemed to be working.
We started to warm up in open order in walk and then trot. His active walk is very pronouced, so much so that you could almost do a rising walk!
I then took lead file and we did some canter work. Murphy has a very direct transision, it was really fantastice to experience, we tired a walk to canter transition as well and it was not quite as direct, but I'm sure it will be very soon.
He is still young, and he does seem to rush in trot, especialy in corners, he actually seems to speed up in the courners.
We then moved in to jumping, firstly over some trotting poles and then over a cross pole and then a 1' jump. He was quite excited by this, the first 1' pole we tried we knocked it down, this was my fault, I pushed him on a bit into the jump and kind of forgot how sensitive he was to my leg and we just ploughed streight throung the jump in canter :eek:
The RI then asked my to take it a bit easy! So we ended up walking on the approach to the jump and then about 3 or 4 strides before I just squeeze a little with my leg and we trot up and over or a bit harder and go into canter and over. I don't know that much about horses, but I am sure he is going to be a fantastic jumper :D
I'm not sure if I was chosen to be the first in my group to ride Murphy or weather it was the luck of the draw, but I am pleased I got to ride him so soon after his arrival :D
You are not allowed to chooses the horses you ride in lessons but the yard manager for the day said she'd pencil his name next to mine in the book for my Monday lesson :D (after she had told me I wasn't allowed to take him home :rolleyes: )
I did feel that this lesson was very different to all the others I have had because I was on a new and less experienced horse, so it was more about me and the RI (since I was the first person to ride him in one of her lessons) discovering what he could and could not do.
At the end of the lesson I washed him off and retuned him to his stable, it was very exciting to get to ride a new horse in a lesson, especially as he was very forward going, but contolable as well, I can see that we could have some really exciting lessons together :D