it seemed as tho he stopped in to make a date with his girl/wife/mother of his children during Jill's lesson.
they chatted quietly for a while and Jill was left to her own devices cantering around to get rio balanced and collected and really engaging his hind end with the forward a bit collect a bit trick. she was circling round and round and round and thought she was doing pretty good, she was bending him with all her might and as he softened just a bit more she softened a bit more and said good boy
and suddenly the teacher piped up out of nowhere and said "good. now bend a little bit."
jill laughed and said, but i was just bending with all my might!
the teacher said, you don't need more might. you need more finesse.
ah yes. jill was grateful for the deeper sand that was helping to keep the rhythm.
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the teacher cooled out her horse for her, and the teacher's daughter had tacked up the horse for jill's student while she'd been riding in her class. the student's parent had brought her a coffee, so all she had to do was admire the icicled scenery and blizzard quiet on the way back into the arena to teach. she felt like royalty.
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