thread on which to report positive things

[MiffyWhinge]

firstly the sun came out, hooray

secondly and even more welcome Joey didn't put a foot wrong today (once he started concentrating and stopped having a good look at everything around him). He managed to shoulder in, leg yield and, with a placer pole, put in a single stride of canter before a jump and do a double with a placer pole in between - he was a star, am ashamed of all the grumpy thoughts I've been having about him until recently. Clever, beautiful boy

please share yours!

[pandora69]

The sun is out again! Big horse STILL has not rolled in his new rug (which could be because he would need a snorkel to roll in his field atm, but hey - look on the bright side!)

I went to the draghounds teamchase yesterday. I wanted big horse to go, but noone wanted to ride him in THAT weather! When I got there I was thankfull I didn't take him as they were towing lorries onto the parking field! But I still had a lovely horsey day. I had friends competing, and there were also such exciting competitors taking part as Lucinda Green and the ex-racehorse Earthmover. And the burger bbq was delish!

CMOT - impressed with your son!

[MiffyWhinge]

trust me cmot, from someone who mostly hears exasperated shouts of 'control your horse' in group lessons that sounds a LOT

cannot find anything positive about my last lesson, except I didn't cry when I badly wanted to

sun is shining again today though

[CMOTdibbler]

Riding instructor told me that my body and leg position is now 'really lovely', and I can get v lazy horse (next horse up is now not lame, but a bit skittish as has been out of work, so have to wait a bit longer) to transition to trot nicely, do a good rising trot, keep him in trot, then transition back when I want to.

This may not sound a lot to others, but for me, it marks a point of real progress that it's all come together.

DS (3) can put himself round a figure of 8 (on a lead rein, but he's steering), and name all the parts of the tack.

Oh, and I have a target for myself now. By the autumn, I want to be doing a nice enough canter to be able to go on a trail ride for the weekend. Will be working hard towards this.

[DressageNut]

I got a left to right flying change on Saturday (right to left is almost established but the other way was No Go according to madam). Fair enough it was a little, er, "expressive" (i.e. with a buck) but it happened!

[FiveGoMadInDorset]

Ok New to the tack room. I have ridden since very small but haven't since I sold my last horse 7 years ago.

Poistive thing today. DD (4) had her second riding lesson and is taking to it like a duck to water.

[seeker]

Oh dear - not many positive things about today!

[seeker]

Spirit's mirror seems so far to be stopping her being quite so stressy in her box.

[mummydoc]

I took noddy to ponyclub yesterday on my own !!!!!!!! and ked him abd dd2 for nearly the whole lesson and even though he was a little skittish and wanted to trot way too fast and slightly sideways away from me i did not panic and DD2 had her first canter on him . earlier in the week i had taken them out on a hack on my own and he was fine but in the school he had a few hairy moments but agina i didn't panic.

[pandora69]

I took my helper-outer girl and big horse down to my friend's outdoor school and did some jumping for the first time in ages (not me on board though! Don't tempt me...I know if I sell him while I am pregnant I will never get to jump him again ) Big horse was just fabulous, the sun was out, and when we got home it was gone 5pm and it was still light. The clocks go forward in a month!

And everyone I speak to seems to have a small brown horse that will jump big hedges and yet still be calm enough to lead a pony. I'm almost looking forward to the next game of fantasy horse!

[oldernowiser]

Lovely pony took grand daughter round a little course of jumps on Thursday and then went out for a really nice calm hack today. He is the love of my life!

I am less terrified when I'm riding (shire cross I was riding has been poorly so I've been riding 13.2hh Highland pony, it's no distance at all if I fall off!)

And I stayed on, didn't panic or beg to get off when pony spooked and took off across the school with me. My first canter since returning to riding!

Now if I can just keep my legs in the right place in rising trot I might be getting somewhere