Getting excited to start my season!

Hi all! I've not posted recently, mostly due to not getting up to anything interesting, but I'll do a quick overview of what we've been doing in the past month while getting ready to start eventing!

Lesson: Positivity goes a long way!

Last week I went for another lesson at Osberton. Emmie was a total superstar!

Lesson: Bitting nightmare..

I went for a lesson at Osberton last Wednesday in preparation for my next event. I got her off the box and she was quite tense warming up - she was a bit rushy and not really accepting the bit. When I started jumping she was rushing a lot, so Mark had us go back to trot and just work on getting her to come a bit lower and relax into my hands. After she was good in trot, we went back into canter and did the same, using a lot of yeilding. Mark is very good at getting me to ride more off my seat and use my legs and seat to move her around, so he had me doing plenty of that.