Today was the first day I played with Olivia since before Christmas Eve. She wasn't keen on the idea of coming out of the field, but I made sure that when she wasn't with me she was getting some exercise and it certainly didn't take long for her to come running straight to me, and then she really did not want to leave! So we played a bit with the question box online to prepare for a nice riding session. I've been working on my bareback riding for a while now for two reasons - 1. my independant seat bareback is light years behind my seat in a saddle especially in canter 2. I've been too lazy to lug my saddle around :)
Anyway, we played question box and bullseye at walk/trot and it was nice. Then we started cantering, which I'm unsure about. I know that I tense up a lot more in the canter and thats probably the reason for her being silly. She tends to toss her head about a lot and she does short, snappy strides and stops, and does little bucks and jumps normally. Because her canter is lovely under saddle, I can only assume she does this because she feels the tension in my body. So she was giving me the same today, and we just kept going through it. And then, she did the LOVLIEST rear ever! I say lovely because it would have made a beautiful photo, she was veery left brain about it and I wish my Dad had caught it on camera. Unfortunately, I hadn't asked her to do that. But after the rear everything just fell into place. She did lovely canters to both sides, and I felt totally at ease. I really wanted to keep on going with that canter, but I heard Linda Parelli's voice in my head: 'ride for tomorrow', and so I left it at that and cannot wait to see how she goes tomorrow.
Hope everyones had a fantastic christmas! Can't wait for the new year and what it will bring
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