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You can tame a mustang but you can never break her spirit

[courageous-equestrian]

I know I don’t post my own content very often but I just wanted to let the few people who do check this blog know that Promise was retired due to ongoing health problems earlier this week. She is now living in a retirement barn about an hour from here. Had a lot of fantastic firsts on this horse, she has earned the break. ❤️ I’ll try to get out and see her around her birthday but aside from that I won’t be posting more of her anymore, so I’ll probably be changing my blog name (and theme n stuff).

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Today promise decided to learn piaffe to evade the canter transition

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Hack Journal #32

Aye it’s been a while whoop

Promise had some problems with her hocks and then we realized it was actually her shoulder but anyway that’s why I haven’t done a proper hack journal in like a month. She’d been on and off lame for the past couple weeks, then I had a big trip so I couldent ride but now I’m back and she’s sound!

I stretched her before the ride because I learned some new neck stretches for her at the clinic. We warmed up and then worked on canter transitions cause we both kinda needed to remember how to canter. I got the ring to myself which was really nice.

I also realized that focusing on my (left) shoulder position fixes a lot

Kind of a boring day :0

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Guess what we did today?

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Next hack session I’m gonna take Promise into the outdoor and just let her canter as fast as she wants. I don’t care if we gallop I just wanna be not scared anymore

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:(

Promise went lame in the clinic today

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Hack Journal #31

Surprise! I got to hack again this week!

Trying to get back into jumping just for the fun of it. Did a lot of trot poles today, found out I really have to push her through em :/ She’s not one of those horses that will rush through/over them.

Also! I’ve finally ditched that corkscrew bit that her owner had her in! Instead I put her in the double-jointed d-ring that came on the bridle I got for Xmas (that bridle now has a double-jointed baucher). She went well and honestly at this point goes mostly off just my leg and seat.

She was spooking at the back of the indoor today so I took her outside to do her canter. There was this kid having her lesson out there and her instructor told her to.... 2-point/perch into the canter? Or perch before giving the canter queue. I was always taugh that that’s very incorrect, but is that just how they do it now a days? Hunter folks e x p l a i n .

(I’ve been in this sport for a little over 5 years and I already feel old, wow)

Was half tempted to do some jumps outside but 1) there were young students using the jumps 2) it was my “first day back” in a sense- I was still remembering how I should be positioned over jumps/poles and I didn’t want to push myself too fast specially not in front of the kids.

A good day nonetheless :)