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Now that the weather is sort of becoming warmer, riding is slowly gearing up to become more intense. Both the horse and I are getting pushed harder per lesson, resulting in sore muscles that last 2-3 days afterward.
When possible, I've been taking dual lessons with a girl who's my age and of a similar skill level.
I'd been riding Sam for months, but yesterday my instructor let me know that at least for the foreseeable future, I won't be riding him. This was pretty surprising to me, because my instructor had been riding him in her own lessons, too.
Apparently in the past week, he's become terrified of the back door of the arena, which leads to some stalls where the two baby horses are kept, and also hay bales. Since he can't SEE the baby horses, he'll just hear weird noises and not know where they're coming from.
He kept trying to dump my instructor off his back, and then acting as if he'd never been trained how to respond to steering with reigns, or from leg pressure.
My instructor thinks it's not safe for either of us to ride him when he's like this, and she doesn't have the time to work with him to get through it, herself. So, she'll stop leasing him, and Sam will again be hanging out in the pasture of his owner, rather than my instructor's.
I feel bad for having talked shit about Sam - he could be very stubborn and lazy, but he was also affectionate?! And his trot was the smoothest for me - I remember finding Jessie's very bouncy and uncomfortable, but hopefully I've learned enough from Sam that I'll be able to manage it now.
In the meantime, I'll bring Sam a cookie on Thursday and maybe give him some extra pets, :(
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When possible, I've been taking dual lessons with a girl who's my age and of a similar skill level.
I'd been riding Sam for months, but yesterday my instructor let me know that at least for the foreseeable future, I won't be riding him. This was pretty surprising to me, because my instructor had been riding him in her own lessons, too.
Apparently in the past week, he's become terrified of the back door of the arena, which leads to some stalls where the two baby horses are kept, and also hay bales. Since he can't SEE the baby horses, he'll just hear weird noises and not know where they're coming from.
He kept trying to dump my instructor off his back, and then acting as if he'd never been trained how to respond to steering with reigns, or from leg pressure.
My instructor thinks it's not safe for either of us to ride him when he's like this, and she doesn't have the time to work with him to get through it, herself. So, she'll stop leasing him, and Sam will again be hanging out in the pasture of his owner, rather than my instructor's.
I feel bad for having talked shit about Sam - he could be very stubborn and lazy, but he was also affectionate?! And his trot was the smoothest for me - I remember finding Jessie's very bouncy and uncomfortable, but hopefully I've learned enough from Sam that I'll be able to manage it now.
In the meantime, I'll bring Sam a cookie on Thursday and maybe give him some extra pets, :(
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