Greetings from Virginia. My team, the horses and I are settled back in after a productive Florida season, and I’m ramping back into the mayhem of spring horse shows, teaching clinics and generally running all over the place at Mach 2 with my hair on fire. It’s not left time for … well, anything else, really, but certainly not for a lot of contemplation. But there’s also not been a lot to contemplate. I’m an ambitious rider trying to make the Big Time, but where I currently am on that path with the group of horses I have right now is a place that is well within my comfort zone. The boys are ages 6, 7 and 9, and I have done those years a LOT.
Even with all that mileage (and just ask my SI joint, because boy oh boy, has there been a lot of mileage), sometimes I still step back in awe of how cool dressage is, and how well the basic concepts of horse training work just about every single time. Horses are always teaching us something, and at the moment, mine are teaching me things I already know, all over again. Here’s a few of the “duh” realizations I’ve had in the past few weeks.
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