Tonight I was riding Ilan who is a brown, mealy nosed, skinny legged horse of indeterminate origin. He has a bit of a reputation, and for a while had to be ridden in a slotted kimberwick with a curb chain, but at the moment he is back in a regular single jointed snaffle.
He does, however, have the most uncomfortable saddle. It is an older Wintec where the girth straps are inside the saddle flap. There is no sweat flap, and the whole saddle must only weigh about 5lbs. Having said that I could feel every seam, all the internal gubbins, and the stirrup buckles with my thighs.
His movement is very odd, the best I could describe it is that he 'slinks like a cat'. When we were just walking it felt like he was walking "S" shapes, not a straight line... it was very weird. He has a nice trot though, easy to rise to... not much elevation in his paces, and sitting trot was quite easy too.
We spent most of the lesson in walk and trot, practicing the jumping position, which I'm now finding much easier (thank goodness!).
Then... near the end of the lesson, Katia started getting poles out. I thought that we would be going over bars on the ground... you know, as an introduction... but no... she sets up a 25cm bar with a couple of trot poles before it, and that was our next exercise! Consequently I directed quite a few black looks in her direction. I would prefer to always have my BP on if I'm doing anything 'dangerous', and hopping over bars counts as dangerous in my book!
Anyway to cut a long story short, I managed to hop over quite happily 3 times! Ilan really looked after me and didn't tow me into the jump (like a certain other pone likes too)
So I'm well impressed with myself!
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