I love our teacher, it seems a lot of people bring their kids to her to learn straight out how to gallop and jump and compete and they won't concentrate on the basics.
We get to go out every saturday, she goes and sets up the arena, we go and get our horses form the paddock, take their blankets off, groom them, tack them up, take them up to the arena, do our lesson (and things are FINALLY starting to come together with my riding) then we dismount, take them down, untack them, groom them again because their all sweaty, clean their bits and brush the hair off their sadle blankets then grab their food, put them in the paddock and feed them.
I really can't speak highly enough of this woman. She has 2 mares which are both over 16HH and they come straight to her and click her all over her arms. One of these mares when she first got her tried to attack her several times as she was previosuly abused and she's worked with her till now she's her main dressage horse and just the sweetest mare.
Last week I got to ride a diferent horse. I ride Basil, he's 5 and stubborn and bossy but got no kick or buck in him (even if he looks like he's like to) and if you mess up and grip with your legs too much he slows down, doesn't spook easily etc. My sister ride Noddy, he spooks a little easier and if you grip with your legs he goes a bt faster. He's finally starting to test out my sister just after I've finally got Basil to stop resisiting everything I ask of him.
Well last week my sister coudln't come so my mum came out, she used to ride bareback so she grips with her legs a lot so my teacher put her on basil and me on noddy instead. wow noddy is differnt, I'd never trotted on him before and was a bit nervous as I knew he had a much bigger quicker stride. And I still didn't fall off.
lol... sorry thta was so long. I'll have to get some pics at one stage.