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What is something you and your horse need to work on?? For Sugar and I we need to work on a nice easy lope. She thinks she needs to go fast all the time.
As for Chilly and I we need to learn that not every ride is a race. And that even when we are not in the Hunter Show ring we can still ride like a Hunter. He feels the need during practice to be a jumper, but in the Hunter Show ring he is the perfect Hunter, placing 4th and 2nd at his second show ever. :)
Trying to work on getting my TB to canter at all...he HATES it! He puts on a bronc act with every attempt at it. He broke his withers as a yearling and is sound. He canters and gallops freely out in pasture, and when I can get him into it under saddle, he has one of the most beautiful canter I've ever sat. Not sure if it's psychological, laziness, or painful with a saddle and rider to balance.
Pebbles is 4yrs and I had a trainer work with her for a month and he brought her a long way fron when I gotten her, now I'm riding her every other day and the trainer is riding her the following days. First she is doing great but it's me. I have to learn to stay put in the saddle and learn her rhythm movements. I think I throw her off because in a trot I'm all over the place trying to gain balance than when I get her to canter is ok, but I'm not coordinated so I throw her leads and track off. Working in progress for me, for her it's to get to know me and work me out of my faults.