Another day, another ride on Gypsy. Boy she gave me an...interesting...time today. Gah. Was real naughty at first ie-pretending not to know how to do things I have taught her... But she kind of turned it around and was going somewhat well. But then another rider came in the arena and Dear Lord that was cause for the apocolypse! Trotted like a little racer around the arena...but she was trying to give me the correct frame so I decided to pick my battles and let her go a little quickly :P Bad decision?
And then I decided to practice some walk-canter transitions, since she needs to be able to do them for the IHSA show... okay. There might be some issues there. HA. I pity the poor booger who gets put on Gypsy and has to control her after you ask her to canter off from a walk. She gets a tad excited and thinks she doesn't know how to walk anymore.
Ahh, all my ranting makes Gypsy sound like some kind of evil, terrible horse from hell. But to give her fair credit, this was a bad day for her. She really is actually a pretty good horse, and she is still learning. At 18 years old, but Hey! You gotta learn sometime, right? :P When I'm not picking on her and asking for weird things she's not used to, she trots around like a pro!
I love my little mare no matter how stupid she decides to be that day... But it's days like today that I find it somewhat difficult to remain upbeat and positive. Gah. Just a little exasperating. But tomorrow is another day, and I have to just think tomorrow will be better. Right?
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