Various Horse Things

I did quite a bit of riding the last couple of weeks. I had two great lessons and several nice rides on Mya. I hope to continue the trend and get a lot of riding in this week as well. I'll just do a summery of each of my rides. Pictures included of course!

Lesson 1:
      Like I've said before for my lessons I ride an Arabian mare named Night. I think she's Anglo Arabian or something like that. But I really like riding her. She is a sensitive and quick horse which I like. Night is also very sweet. In my lesson my instructor had me on a lunge line so we could focus on my balance and posture. We practiced two-point quite a bit. I really needed that. Doing it over poles was fun. I'm learning to find my balance, and then I can start jumping. (yay!) We also did some no stirrup work at the trot. That is always a good workout. Its always interesting trying to find your balance when you first start riding without stirrups. Especially when you're doing a small circle on a lunge line. But I think we figured it out and did pretty good. Though I was glad to pick up my stirrups again. All together it was I great lesson. I think I learned a lot. :)

 

 Lesson 2:
     For my second lesson a week later to did a similar type thing. This time though we focussed more on two point and perfecting it. We also did a lot of pole work. Night was a great horse that day. She was very responsive and laid back. I think she liked doing pole work just as much as I did. I felt like I learned a ton at this lesson and really improved.

Riding Mya:
     Then over two or three days I had several great rides on Mya. Mya acted relaxed and responsive which I really liked. Sometimes she can be a rather crazy horse to ride. One of the neat things we figured out how to do was a really nice sitting trot. That was the best sitting trot I have ever done on her. You could actually sit it!

 Coming Up:
     One week from today is a horse show that I'm doing. I am riding Night in the show and we will be doing 3 or 4 english classes. This is actually the first english horse show that I will ever have done. I am really looking forward to it! Its just a small schooling show at the barn where I take lessons. I think it will be a great experience though. I hope to be able to take Mya to some local shows later this summer and I'd love to able to take her to this same schooling show in the Fall. The barn holds it twice a year. I guess we'll just have to see how this one goes first. But I'm excited about it!