Tony's just about 10 (tomorrow!), so he's got 10-15 good riding years left. Maybe more. He's a Haflinger after all, and they tend to go forever (knock on wood). My hope is that someday I can earn all of my bronze medal scores with him. We will never be spectacular. We may never win anything more than a schooling show, but I hope can get to a place where we can put in a decent enough test to get the necessary scores and say "we did it."
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| The current extent of our extend. |
Lead changes, half passes, and extended gaits all seem so far off, though. I'm not the greatest rider. I've certainly never ridden a third level test myself. I've taught myself and my difficult horse most of what we know. So at this point, we've got okay leg yields, rushing lengthenings, and tense shoulder-ins. The past couple of weeks, we've suddenly had a stretchy trot after a long time of really terrible attempts, so I'm hoping these things just come with lots of hard work.
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| A stretchy trot appeared out of nowhere! |
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