Birthday Surprise

Jill's boss was giving a tour and they stopped in to the arena while Jill was teaching a walk trot lesson. It was one of the student's birthdays and so Jill was letting her choose what they worked on the most that day, which was, of course posting trot, ha.

When the visitors came in the arena, they'd been doing an agonizing effort at sitting trot, "okay, all riders. Birthday girl special” Jill instructed, to everyone's delight, ha.

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Some of the regular students were being given the real low down, so they would remember to close the barn door bottom half when they had a pony in the barn. "Have you heard of clastrophobia? Well, your buddy, the quietest of all the ponies, sometimes gets a case of horse-clastrophoebia and she freaks out and sits down on the cross ties.

If you ever see her start to do that, get away against the wall and shout at her to STAND UP. Some times she will, but sometimes she breaks the cross ties and just stands there. So then you step forward and get her and tie at different set. Okay?"

Jill thought the owner's habit of coming to lean on the crossties at the mare's head only made it worse, but didn't feel at liberty to say so.

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