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    riding related amusement

    so I have to be getting ready for a mini COTH ride get-together in a few hours here but...wanted to tell you about yesterday

    so my middlest child rides at a hunter(ish) barn in the Valley about 2x week weather permitting...it's a full hour there and back and a about 90 min lesson so not a lot of time to do other things for me...

    between it and the weather and my own horses care (20 some) I have not ridden since Nov...so I am walking back to the barn after her lesson down there and the trainer yells at me from the arena, "Maria come ride this horse" she is always reversing our names



    so I say "you aren't going to yell at me ??

    no no she says so I mount up with my too big helmet that she was wearing and plop up on a big welsh partbred with a back like a sofa...

    now he's a greenie and only 3 or 4 I forget so I say what am I supposed to do " walk/trot transitions" she says so off we go...

    now he had been lugging around on his rider who really does have a heavy hand (but that's not my place to say) and so I just let him trot out big and forward....

    and for a little while, I'm just "in the zone" doing some soft stuff... walking and trotting and nothing overly exciting to me... anyway, they are all in the center of the arena and at one point I get close enough to hear the trainer say to the other two women there "well she rides a classic seat that's why"...I stay out on the rail after that

    I end after a while, he's pooped anyway...turns out the trainer has been telling the others why they should ride like I do....

    I was stunned...I've never ridden proper "hunters" in my life (I had told them once unless it meant walking thru a creek/brush pile or over it I'm not dismounting kick and go baby)...

    and she says "doesn't he have a nice brain... I've seen enough of the horses you've bred to know the brain you like on a horse"...

    I thought...well how cool is that...

    so she gets me in the car later and says "<x>she can have very heavy hands and you don't and I wanted her to see you ride him...they did not understand why you ride with such a long leg"...

    I said "well don't you dare tell them I ride dressage,let's not get that rumor started"


    I thought,but, you've never seen me ride in your life, no one on this farm has, how could you know that?

    I guess that sounds like bragging but it's not meant to be...only that someone who had only seen my stock thought that much of me...I was kinda proud...but befuddled as to how she knew I'd not screw him up or get bucked off as he pitched someone else last month in the middle of a lesson?

    anyway gotta get ready for a ride

    Tamara in TN
    Last edited by Tamara in TN; Feb. 21, 2010, 09:54 PM.
    Production Acres,Pro A Welsh Cobs
    I am one of the last 210,000 remaining full time farmers in America.We feed the others.
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    Wow, I would be floating too, if someone who's opinion I valued, said those remarks about me!! How marvelous to hear, just coming out of no place! My head would swell enough to fit that helmet!

    Not sure how instructor would know your style, unless she was looking at your kid ride, trained by you, in your riding style.

    Anyway, enjoy the "moment of glory" and float for the rest of the week.

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      That's pretty awesome!

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      • #4
        Good job, Maria!

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          Originally posted by goodhors View Post
          Wow, I would be floating too, if someone who's opinion I valued, said those remarks about me!! How marvelous to hear, just coming out of no place! My head would swell enough to fit that helmet!

          Not sure how instructor would know your style, unless she was looking at your kid ride, trained by you, in your riding style.

          Anyway, enjoy the "moment of glory" and float for the rest of the week.
          it just was cool...I don't do much horse stuff off the farm...

          but we had a GREAT ride today**...two other posters,me,middlest child and two dogs...

          two other kids of ours roared up on ATVs about 60% thru the ride to visit and we just had a nice ride and then tea and cake here in the house and just had a nice time all round...4 marchadors,one paint and two big bears...it was all good...

          but it had to have been what she saw/sees in Middlest...I don't try to be a "lesson mommy" <gag> I really just stay away and out from the others and try to just explain what the instructor is saying to her...as no one else has ever instructed her but me we use different terms

          I really do like the teacher and she has been around since dirt...or before I love her
          and the place...
          and the moment...
          it was just cool

          in that old mommy of three way

          best

          Tamara in TN

          ** only one spill and it wasn't enough to leave a stain
          Last edited by Tamara in TN; Feb. 21, 2010, 10:15 PM.
          Production Acres,Pro A Welsh Cobs
          I am one of the last 210,000 remaining full time farmers in America.We feed the others.

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            Originally posted by ex-racer owner View Post
            Good job, Maria!
            she is like my mother, it was when we were in trouble....

            (in heavy german accent),

            "tamarajuliaveronika, you KNOW who I am talking to!!!!!!!!

            I'll answer to anything after that...

            Tamara in TN
            Production Acres,Pro A Welsh Cobs
            I am one of the last 210,000 remaining full time farmers in America.We feed the others.

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