Horses are my guardian angels!

Today I had a lesson early in the morning… indoor…

We picked up last lesson exercises but I didn’t ride very well (my fault) … lazy leg returns… and the results weren’t that exciting as the ones in the last week.

Good thing my trainer is a wonderful professor and always manages to keep me “forward” in the joys of riding despite my riding ability ups and downs.

So today the problem was my left leg… the horse would fall inside when riding to the left, so the circles were a total mess and I got some pretty bad Leg Yields… or I may say that sometimes I didn’t got it at all, however this was finally fixed by trainer helping from the ground.

After this was time for Shoulder In / Volte / Shoulder In … that was OK… but not great.

Really bad were the “Landings” my new word for the Canter to Trot transitions… as I literally “Land” on the horse’s back… so really can’t complaint if the poor guy doesn’t stay on the bit and forward after the “Landing”… I really need to work that out.

I also have to train at home changing the whip from one hand to the other… that might be funny to watch… I’ll add a nice whip to my shopping list!

Finally some canter. The transitions… not great… the canter… OK… holding too much the inside rein in the short turns… Bad… Why is it that my hands don’t do what my brain tells them to do?

Another good thing was that I was a little hill and as soon I arrived at the yard all the bad feelings (stomach pain and nauseas) went away.

In the last years, often I went riding when I was sick just to feel better afterwards and it always worked. Sometimes when I can’t ride… I just stop in a yard and spend some time watching the horses… is a great stress and pain reliever.

I remember many hard moments in life that my horse helped me to overcome… with his serenity, with is kind eyes, natural naughtiness, and his capacity to just be himself… a horse…