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Goals for the New Year

 My goal for the new year is to try and post everyday even if it's just a quote about dressage or horses. I had an amazing lesson on Thursday by Doug. When I got there he was riding Lissy and she looked amazing. We have been working on the training scale together.




We have been really improving our sitting trot and working on the rhythm of the trot.  When Doug was riding Felicity it was amazing how much impulsion her back end was creating. After I had watched Doug ride for a while, which was wonderful she looked so fancy! It's crazy to think that she has only been in training for about 6 months and that I have only owned her for a year as of 12/31/11!! Anyway we worked on the contact and impulsion elements of the training scale on my lesson on Thursday. It was really helpful to have Lissy warmed up and riding nicely so I could work on my rein connection.

Finally I will leave any readers I might have out there with a quote from my wise trainer Douglas Puterbaugh:

"Horses will try to evade your aids in two ways: speed (slow or fast) and crookedness.

Merry Christmas!

Our First Musical Freestyle (Felicity and I)

Today was the Christmas party and musical freestyle exhibition at the barn. Overall it went pretty well, Lissy was distracted by the time we got done with the warm up and did our routine but I feel like I handled it well. Also despite ourselves we managed a killer free walk across the diagonal. I could really feel our progress. At the Christmas party afterward there was a raffle and I won a photo shoot and a quarter sheet! I also got some deeply discounted seat lessons :)