Hack-enstance

If she'd had her guitar there with her, Jill would have stayed longer.  It was so comforting and comfortable to be at her former mentor's place again for a visit.  

When her life-longest teacher asked "so, how far did you ever get with that thoroughbred of yours anyway?" she made it sound like "rockstar-horse" of yours...  Their paths had crossed when Jill was riding without a coach, retraining a big former racehorse into the   s a n e  eventing enthusiast she knew he could become, ha.
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It was just happenstance, but in retrospect, Jill thought it was wise to walk the log and then come back do flat work. He was a hot thoroughbred after all.  The footing was so soft... and, Jill had to admit to herself that the pony was better schooled than she would have thought. She didn't really want to approved of the work of the former trainer, but here he was... More successfully schooled than the old man rockstar horse was when she'd first got her hands on him, that's for sure.  Or was it the discipline? Hadn't the old man gone hunter vs jumper?

The little guy'd had too much work in the draw lines though because he even tended to get overbent as a cleverly, athletic avoidance. But still, he felt lovely...

She had imagined canter walk, walk canter transitions the whole big long drive over there. and just swinging the leg to get the lead changes down the straight line. They'd actually only done a few tiny canters, with transitions the worst of it all. But, it was nice to know he had the cloud canter already. Imagine where they could go!

Jill started thinking about a top hat the whole long drive to work after that...

Too bad about the puddle disagreement though. She had almost thought beforehand that perhaps riding was a good place to direct her confrontational nature (instead of every where else in her life), but, then at the refusal/run back at the dwindling puddle, she was sure that he started it all.


How did her reins always end up so much too long? He had a shorter neck than anything she'd ridden before, that's for sure.