I had a very good first dressage lesson! …thinking this will be a fun journey
Fun, frustrating, joyous, aggravating, fulfilling, exciting…I could go on. I’m glad your first experience was good!
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Yes, it is a ‘journey’ and to succeed and progress you will find you need an endless supply of determination and humility. Enjoy!
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I was wondering how you were coming along with your rescues. Can you provide some detail? Have all the horses arrived and how did they settle in?
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Well…about those mustangs? Is that what you mean Cat Tap? Three of the 8 i’ve adopted/purchased from the BLM have been here since July first. They are learning to lead on a halter and will soon transition to a larger barn and paddock. Two of the mares are too young (3) to be backed yet and are obviously still growing… as both have gotten taller and wider since arrival. The 7yr old gelding will be a WONDERFUL trail horse someday. He has such a head-down natural aspect that even though i’ll school him in basic equitation, he’ll never be a dressage horse. I’m picking up four more of the mustangs the end of this month, three of which i specifically purchased with dressage in mind. THey will all need to be gentled and learn everything before they get started in dressage lessons. Of my domestics, i have one mare now, a big-moving confident palomino curly mare, that is a rising star! Who KNEW that she’d excel! She is a rescue too, but from Longmeadow Rescue Ranch, and was never feral. The sturdy wide young buckskin i started dressage lessons with learned a whole lot during his 3 months of lessons and I’m just trail riding him now, doing sheep rounds out in the pastures, fence checks etc. He is unflappable…not even horse flies! Though i consider him green, he’s steady and will be such a good everyday working horse.
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Enjoy the journey. It will be useful in our every day life.
