We've been continuing with our flatwork with somewhat mixed success - it seems the harder I try the worse our results get because pony doesn't like being asked to work too hard and therefore tends to get tense/open his mouth against the bit/tank off with me if I push him for more. I'm trying to stick with it for now as my instructors have both said I'm doing the right thing.
Jumping is also progressing. I've had several SJ lessons with different instructors as well as my regular trainer. I can gladly say that I'm finally getting a bit braver. Whereas the mention of a 75cm jump used to have me running for the hills screaming I can now happily set up an 80 cm SJ in the arena and pop over it nice and calmly without the need for an instructor to shout at me. In fact I had a lesson last week where I though the jumps looked a tad bigger than normal - I chose not to question it but at the end of the lesson I checked the heights to see that we'd been merrily jumping 95 cm's to 1 mtre. Not too shabby!
XC is also a work in progress - I've had 2 XC lessons this year - neither were brilliant as pony has suddenly decided that all the other horses in our training groups are his new bff's and he can't possibly canter away from them - at least not with a few run outs, stops, bucks and rears - always fun for me!
Strangely, when we did our first XC competition he was a star - flew round clear and just 13 seconds off the optimum time (that was despite a slight detour when I got us lost in the woods).
Next XC outing is tomorrow so fingers crossed it's more of the same from both of us! I do promise to post an update on how it went!
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