Ok so I have two bits of news today really. One is that bob is going home :( unfortunately we don't think he is going to work out as well as we thought. He is getting a bit strong and stroppy when he doesn't get his own way and I am spending less time on Millie and I don't want that to happen. Millie isn't jumping as well these days and I think I owe her my attention as seen as she is competing for me.
Secondly, I had my first dressage lesson on Millie today. I am so delighted with her. T sat up on her for the first 5 or 10 mins to get a feel for her. Within two minutes, she had her on the bit. T is on Irish dressage team and is a total guru when it comes to dressage. I was in total shock, looking at her she looked like a total different horse. She rode her in walk and trot for about 10 mins to see how she was. She said that Millie is very sensitive to the leg, a little bit too sensitive, as in when you put inside leg on to help her bend round the leg on a circle, she runs on and speeds up, which she needs to learn that she can't do that. But she was so good, T couldn't get over how well she was. Our plan was to do some work in walk and trot on both reins to get her on the bit and doing some leg yeilding on both reins too. We ended up doing some canter because she was so pleased with her. I was such a proud Mammy because of her good behaviour. I am so shocked at how much I really love dressage and I am definitely going to keep it up. I booked another lesson for next week again. My goal is to get some dressage tests done by the end of this year so fingers crossed we will be able to. I can't stop smiling since the lesson, I am so happy. It was really well worth it, and I would say it will be worth the time and work too. T has set out a regime where I do 2 days of flatwork, 2 jumping and one hack a week and then my show at the weekend. I couldn't get any photo's or video's because I had no one until the end of the lesson as YO and dad spent the hour to catch Bob and failed and ended up leaving him there until tomorrow night. lol. Anyway I have to try and repeat our work today on Millie at home tomorrow so I will try get OH to take a video of me on her, IF I can manage to get her to do it again. Knowing my luck I wont be able now but I am willing to work and stick with it. Hopefully I will be able to add some pic's tomorrow. I have quiet a few video's from the last show I was at so I will add those in the next few days. Finally have my own laptop back so will get them up then, I know its going to be jumbled but I don't want to loose them and keep them up to date. Anyway, thanks for reading if you got this far, or even if you read any of it :) sorry if this got stupidly long :)
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