For good measure, this is Rex. He is a jumper but is laid up with something to do with his fetlock, I don't remember, but I walk him sometimes when I'm at the barn. He's a total sweetie, when he's drugged anyways. I hear he has some steering/brakes issues in real life though. He looooooves being curried, esp his face with one of those jelly scrubbies. He is GINORMOUS, I can barely even lift the saddle up that high. We walked for an hour and a half this Saturday.

Good lesson Saturday, wooooo

To start with: cutest poneh ever, y/y?


Outside line, vert to little oxer, lovely little grim face


Then a light rollbackyish turn to the white gate, then back over the red white and blue going the other way


Then we did the little liverpool, I was worried/anticipating so we left a little long and I'm way ahead


White gate again, good pony


Liverpool again, that's better


RW&B again


This is a fairly accurate representation of how uneven my legs get


Coming over the RW&B going the other way, you can see part of the rest of the course: Outside line (RWB vert to oxer), white gate, RWB again, back up the quarterline to the liverpool, then around on an angle to a bounce


Bounce. Felt much better than last week when it was only 2 elements; thinking/writing about it helps make the improvement for the next week. I like bounces 'cause eventually by the 2nd or 3rd element I can make myself not throw myself ahead of the motion


Last part of the bounce again


Pretty good all in all. Rather than holding my hand all the way through like the beginning of the summer, trainer is making me do the course, then tell her what went right/wrong and then fix it the next time. Which is hard for me to do, I'm really, really bad at "feeling" things in many ways, but I guess that's why she's having me do it!