| Subject: I ride Flicker |
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Julia
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Date Posted: 08:53:18 04/16/01 Mon
At first I walk them around on lounge lines at the same time to wake 'em up a bit. Then I hop on Flicker and hand the others to Tommy, who was helping me with them today. Then I trot Flicker around in circles, the get off a secong and set up caveletti to seperate my strides. Flicker goes over them perfectly at a walk, then at a trot. I take him away from the caveletti and start to canter him around it, slow him to a trot, then canter over the thin poles. All I heard was one Thump from his hind leg, because he tripped after the second-last one. That's okay, I thought, but I cantered over them with him one more time to make sure, anyway. Again I hear that Thump, this time on the secong caveletti, and he didn't even trip!! I tried again, thinking I put him into it one the wrong lead, but still, his gait was smooth and not choppy, but then he refused to go over them! I circled him around the ring twice, then walked over the caveletti. He did fine. Then at a trot, and I heard that Tump AGAIN! What's wrong with him? Thinking it was just spring fever, I got off him, took off his excersize saddle, got a leg up from Tommy, and then I urged him into a trot. I tried to adjust to the bumpy gait, and the second I asked for a canter, he stopped dead in his tracks. At least I was prepared for this, I was barely thrown up on his neck. I can't let him get away with that, so I got him to walk around a bit, then got him to trot, then I urged him really hard with my outside leg, pulled it back, and he cantered. I leaned forward on his back, gripping onto his main and holding on by rapping my legs around his barrel, and he started to hand gallop without me telling him to. It's easier to gallop this way, and I thought that if he WANTED to run fast, I'd tell him to. After a bit of staying at a hand gallop, it felt like he had stopped galloping and was cantering way FASTER than a hand gallop. Too late, I realized he wasn't cantering, he was galloping, and not like a normal gallop, race horse fast gallop! I was at the end of the corral now, and I realized, after trying to wipe my sweaty hands on his usually dry main, that it would take forever to cool him out. But it was worth it. So I hopped off and let him in my small arena, where he couldn't canter or much less gallop. I was going to have him cool out a bit in there, and went for Princess
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