Wednesday, December 14, 2005

YESTERDAY WAS D LESSON EVA!!!!!!! BEST BEST BEST BEST BEST BESTEST!!!!! *swoon* i <3 CABRIOLE!!! CABBY CABRIOLE!!! LUV LUV LUV LUV!!!!...

lol ok so went to polo club early . so checked out d dressage whips at d d'equestrian store. didn't buy in d end cuz i didn't like d handle. then after went to d stables and visited buckay 4 a while then checked d board. i got buzz :) (@ caro and jun: caro u got cocoa and jun u got wolfman) elisabeth got cabriole. nway got kinda impatient and went to d arena early and mounted and warmed up. zul came and then elisabeth came. so we warmed up (again 4 me) and then did serpentines over and over. and i was lead file!!! :S lol good thing was zul allowed me to choose how many loops in d serpentine. ended up doing NO 5-looped ones and only one 4-looped one haha.

then after we did canter. zul was like ok we r gna start basic training 4 flying changes; aka cantering diagonals. so 1st zul made us trot d diagonals and work on going straight. then after that we cantered. buzz's canter was as usual very nice and smooth... like bobby's <3. problem was this time it was hard keeping him in it. elisabeth behind me kept going "whoa" d min cabby went into canter. even though it seemed ok. quite disastrous cuz i kept having to go bk to trot so cabby wouldn't bolt off. in d end i got kinda annoyed lol. so i offered to switched horses which elisabeth seemed quite relieved to?? luckily zul is not like sandra and allowed us to switch.

cabby was REAL diff from buzz. cabby's like HUGEE but kinda on d thin side, extremely forward and liver chestnut and sooo smooth!!! lol and buzz is like fat, short compared to cabby, kinda lazy and pinto. zul made me go lead AGAIN :S lol but it was kinda fun on cabby. nway we cantered in d corner and then went on untill juz b4 d other end then trot then in d corner after d diagonal ends pick up d canter again. d 3rd time we did this cabby shied away from d corner just b4 d diagonal and bolted off and tried to attack buzz who was like 4 or 5 horse lengths behind us. THANK GOD 4 D LESSON ON WATERCOLOURS!!! i managed to turn him away (whew) and after a short bolt in d opp direction get him back to trot.

call me mad but it was actually quite fun! haha nway after a short slow trot we did d exercise again. and...*drumroll* cabby bolted again and he did d exact same thing. except this time d horse he attacked was this chestnut horse who this lady was riding ( she had LONG LONNG reins and d horse was like SOOOOOO ON D BIT!!! so kwl!!! ) took me by surprise but did d same thing. in total he bolted like 4 times?? and i didn't fall!!! (keeping up my "legacy" haha. @ dawnee: i think maybe u were rite abt d glue saddle thingy ;) ) lol i weirdly actually enjoyed his bolts. oh and d lady riding d chestnut walked by and said "well ridden" while we were walking after he bolted again!!!

at d end zul asked me if i was in d SPEX TEAM!!! i was like no and he said "well if u work hard u will be".

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i was kinda shocked lol. then zul was like u noe cabby is elementry level?? he's very nice to do leg yielding on. lol so i tried like once. it's sooo NICE!!!! lol and i kinda felt like i was bk at hlc... indoor arena, high level horses... nway after that we did d diagonal thing one by one and i realised cabby has HUGE STRIDES!!! like 1 of his strides is equal to 2 of buzz's??

nway that's just d start of my riding week!!! -- weeelll almost a week... i didn't ride 2day but 2moz i'm going RL!!!! :D:D:D and staying untill fri evening!! nway i gtg byee...

luv kath :D

|`kath| 10:03 AM|

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