Hurtled lately? Jill was filling Roomie in on the lesson she'd missed.
"I could see the dirt coming for a long time before I hit it, but it didn't really hurt." She'd announced pretty much the same thing, getting up right away during the lesson. Thank god it didn't even knock the wind out of her. And, that she just got it done. Shaking, like you do after a fall.
Her right hand and arm was pretty wrenched though. The index fingers became swollen and unusable as the eve wore on... You're not supposed to hold on to your horse, as you fall, but Jill usually did. Instinct from the road hacks and cross country she thought. In this case, they were approaching together and then, splat, she was on one side of the jump, as far as the reins plus her fully stretched arm and hand would reach, while he was still on the other.
She'd joked in the lesson "I think this horse should be REnamed!" They all called him Easy. And then trying to not repeat past mistakes, she cantered around to jump the vertical WITH THE HORSE, instead of ahead of him. The teacher had clarified that what happened was, Jill checked the chesnut back as he came around the corner, coming on too strong, and he ignored it. So she gave up on slowing and decided to go with him for the long spot, just as he proceeded to take my earlier directions, with a full stop. So, ya, she got ahead of him.
Her right hand and arm was pretty wrenched though. The index fingers became swollen and unusable as the eve wore on... You're not supposed to hold on to your horse, as you fall, but Jill usually did. Instinct from the road hacks and cross country she thought. In this case, they were approaching together and then, splat, she was on one side of the jump, as far as the reins plus her fully stretched arm and hand would reach, while he was still on the other.
She'd joked in the lesson "I think this horse should be REnamed!" They all called him Easy. And then trying to not repeat past mistakes, she cantered around to jump the vertical WITH THE HORSE, instead of ahead of him. The teacher had clarified that what happened was, Jill checked the chesnut back as he came around the corner, coming on too strong, and he ignored it. So she gave up on slowing and decided to go with him for the long spot, just as he proceeded to take my earlier directions, with a full stop. So, ya, she got ahead of him.
A fellow student describing it to another rider in the barn said, "you could see the moment of confusion, and then total freedom! ha ha, and then Jill the ground."
The student for the next lesson said, with sympathy to Jill "oh, so he shot you like a slingshot too?" and recounted a lesson she'd seen earlier in the week...
The student for the next lesson said, with sympathy to Jill "oh, so he shot you like a slingshot too?" and recounted a lesson she'd seen earlier in the week...
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