Lexy came out to make up her Monday lesson today. We had gotten rained out. She has been working very hard with Intuition, but today Intuition had a small cut on her ankle and wasn't 100%. So we decided to work on rebuilding some of Lexy's confidence in herself.
Something that happens when you are riding very green horses is a questioning of your own ability. Horses have to learn their jobs, and make a lot of mistakes during the learning process. It is very easy for us to blame ourselves for their mistakes. Lexy had started to wonder if she really was a good rider. Although, we all have our room for improvement Lexy has done a fantastic job of riding a very heavy on her forehand mare.
Today Lexy rode Pickles. My plan was to work on trusting him to "just do his job". This is an opportunity for Lexy to work on staying with him. Things were going so well that I kept inching the oxer a bit higher. I would like to see some improvements to her equitation, but that wasn't our focus for today. Enjoy the picture and video.
The oxer is 3foot with a 2'3" spread and she's jumping downhill making this a drop fence to boot.
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