Lesson & Koda

Soo.
I rode Teddy in my lesson. We did gridwork combined with some fun rollbacks!
Teddy turned into, "Teddy, the Barrel-Racing Wonder!" Hahaha. He was on fire! :) I love that. Whenever I ride Teddy, he absolutely comes alive. I don't want to brag or anything, but for the moment... of the people at SHRA right now... I think I've been Teddy's best rider. I don't know about previous riders that I've never seen ride him, of course, but yeahh.

And then I rode Koda.
Walk, trot, canter.
He got on his butt for a good two solid strides each direction in the canter. He was a lot calmer, too. And he's forward in the trot. And he's starting to be forward automatically at the walk. Yaaaay! :D I'm hoping we can start private lessons up again soon, and I'm hoping Kim will be impressed since he's been off for SO LONG. Ugghh.
But my baby's back now. ^_^ So I am happy.

SOUNDNESS! YAAAY!

Oookay.
So.

I've been riding school horses [Diesel, Jack, Rio - too cute!, Teddy, Ed, Barney, Truck] for the longest time now. And I still will, because Koda still has the bruise. However...

HE IS PERFECTLY SOUND IN THE INDOOR! Where there is about 6 inches of sand so its nice and soft... but he is STILL SOUND!

w00t!
whee!
oh, happy day. :)

Hahaha. I rode him Monday & Wednesday. MOM rode him Wednesday morning after I did. I know! hahaa. Just out of the blue, "Can I ride him after you're done?"
She walked around on her own, steering him and everything! And she even trotted. By herself. It was rather accidental the first time, but oh well. haha.
I told her we sould take a mother/daughter private lesson sometime, but she said no. I told her Vicky and Emily used to do it, but she still said no. :( Oh well. I think she rode yesterday because she wants to ride when we go to Hawaii. Something like that. Get a little experience, maybe. Dakota took care of her though. Dunno if the trail horsies - no matter how good they are at their job - will do as good of a job. *shrug*
We'll find out.