2011-11-15

Teachings

Jill had to turn down $240 in earnings to earn $24, and keep the job.  She'd gotten mixed up in the scheduling, twice.  Was it totally her fault? Why did she have to be the only one to pay for it?  The situation was compounding the impending weather related migraine.


Mean while Jill's teacher told her she wasn't riding him enough. Jill thought that was the greatest criticism she'd ever heard!

She had always wanted a horse that would pony a pony, so she thought it was good that he was turned out with the ponies now.

Her teacher had come across this horse twice you know, as a horse for sale. once at barn where he was all scruffy and not working and then a few months later all trimmed up and looking more fancy. 


But she recognized him, since he'd already been vetted and shown to have navicular.

The teacher bought him anyway, (taking her chances on his condition), when the second place came down to her suggested price. 


And he had done very well for her, and now he was doing well for Jill. she was happy to be hanging out with him!

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The thing about how hard our teacher works us, is that she works even harder than we do. EVERY day. ALL day." Jill said to a fellow students as they undid their horses' girths.

She had been joking around that since it was such pouring rain they wouldn't be able to hear the teacher and would thus basically have a "free" ride... ha.

The storm had eased up. Jill was amazed how her mount could hear the teacher...

Her horse knew not only essential verbal commands, like ter-rot, but whole entire descriptions of exercises.

On the teacher's request (not the rider's), he was leg yeilding in to the centre line, straightening for a few strides and then leg yeilding back out.   He understood turn down the centre line and leg yeild over to the wall and make a 10m circle and do shoulder in to B and straighten and half halt down the long side. it was amazing. was she supposed to stop him for starting before she told him to?

"Na, let him listen to me" the teacher said.

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