So Ive been in training for my job for several weeks now and havent been able to ride much. It SUCKED. Ok, so training finished and I'm now back to a much nicer schedule. HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!! I got to ride Sophie on Tues, Wed, and did a lesson on Thurs. I was expecting her to be out of shape and stiff but she really impressed and surprised me this week. All three days she was supple and working so well through herself. I was just amazed by her. Thats why I decided to do a lesson on Thursday even though both of us had been out or work a bit. Well, boy am I glad I did! We started out with spiral trot circles and shoulder in. Her shoulder in was more like a shoulder fore, which is totally my fault and inability, so after we worked on that a bit we went to canter work. Now, just the fact that Sophie started out being able to do these things is a massive improvement. So we did counter canter work, in the ring, so the tighter turns were difficult for her and counter canter work is very new for her anyways. She did a lead change, I DIDNT EVEN KNOW SHE COULD, and broke a few times but finally figured out what I was asking and did it beautifully. All of that really got her working up in herself and in a shortened (dare I say collected?!?!) canter. Then add in a few canter take offs from the walk and we were really cooking. Her canter work was so amazing! My trainer told me to do a small circle since she was working well and boy did I make it small. Sophie did a gorgeous, no faulting step at all, for a canter circle that was smaller than 8 meters!!!! I dont think you, as a reader, can fully comprehend how exceptional that is for SOPHIE to do! And it was so balanced and graceful. My trainers jaw dropped. We stopped the lesson there, no need to push for more because Sophie far exceeded what either of us even expected of her in future work, and she did it beautifully. My trainer told me that a year ago when we started lessons (and I only do less than 2 a month so we really havent had that many) that she never expected to see Sophie perform 2nd level, and higher, movements and most certainly didnt think it would happen after only a year. This mare is exceptional in so many ways and is just really exceeding the expectations of everyone who knows her. Where is her limit???? I dont know, I thought we had already pretty much hit it, but she keeps pushing forward. I wonder what this year will hold for us!
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July 2015
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