Time to Ride
Today I started horses only at 7 p.m., after having spent all day working on texts and illustrations for 'Elements Equitation (2005). Before that, at tea, we discussed the Paris student riots and the difference of French Napolean to German Frederician political approaches. I feel ashamed of living in France for eight years and still not having coomand of the French language; I am looking forward to reading Alain Touraine's "Le Grand Refus" and "Le Monde des Femmes", as recommended by today's Frankfurter Allgemeine.
To work Leporello and Nidal from the ground took 90 minutes. That is, bringing them in from the field, cleaning and letting them turn around the shoulders, and lunging them to the point of giving and mobilising. The point: they must look in the direction in which they go , bring their shoulders before their inner hind leg and move steadily forward, with their backs mounted, their hindquarters closed. Leporello (9), after several seasons in the Study-Hormanship program, is polite and very well instructed. His performance was not bad for the first day of start-up, his weaknesses and his good will were appearant. Nidal (15), with very little training here, was not willing to give his neck and look in the direction he was walking. His charm and temperament are intriguing none-the-less. After a while he began to destress, to blow his nostrils and show short movements of his tongue. I left it at that, to avoid reactivating a lameness, which he developed 18 month ago, in the contexts of getting straight.
It is a pleasue to work with these horses again. It took 45 minutes, all included, per horse to achieve a positiv result. Here is my thinking for this season 2006: If I do four horses (4x45 min) and add 2x30 minutes for riding two horses, I should be able to train four horses in four hours, alternating their riding. Add one hour for a daily ride out makes for five hours horses a day, six days a week. I would like to go for the white guys (Leporello, Nidal und Fabian) and Fallada in regular training and Secret Taboo to do rides out, alternating Zola. If this works, I will keep six horses happy, and they will make me happy.
This plan will leave Anna, Pepita and Fiona (Farma's family) out in the field, as well as Anisette (Anna's daughter), who deserves to begin, and Wallina, who might be a perfect hack for rides in the forest. And there also are Therese and WaIk-on-Top. I do not know, which group I like better, the chestnuts or the grays and dark brown one. But I am willing to pass one of these two groups on to a rider, who might want to come to La Boulaye as a participant of the 'Association of Interdisciplinary Studies' to learn and gain experience in a real life work situation. And if that person also wanted to learn how to control a virtual 3D space, as well as loves to garden once in a while, he/she would be a perfect match (please let me know if it is you. C.S.).
To work Leporello and Nidal from the ground took 90 minutes. That is, bringing them in from the field, cleaning and letting them turn around the shoulders, and lunging them to the point of giving and mobilising. The point: they must look in the direction in which they go , bring their shoulders before their inner hind leg and move steadily forward, with their backs mounted, their hindquarters closed. Leporello (9), after several seasons in the Study-Hormanship program, is polite and very well instructed. His performance was not bad for the first day of start-up, his weaknesses and his good will were appearant. Nidal (15), with very little training here, was not willing to give his neck and look in the direction he was walking. His charm and temperament are intriguing none-the-less. After a while he began to destress, to blow his nostrils and show short movements of his tongue. I left it at that, to avoid reactivating a lameness, which he developed 18 month ago, in the contexts of getting straight.
It is a pleasue to work with these horses again. It took 45 minutes, all included, per horse to achieve a positiv result. Here is my thinking for this season 2006: If I do four horses (4x45 min) and add 2x30 minutes for riding two horses, I should be able to train four horses in four hours, alternating their riding. Add one hour for a daily ride out makes for five hours horses a day, six days a week. I would like to go for the white guys (Leporello, Nidal und Fabian) and Fallada in regular training and Secret Taboo to do rides out, alternating Zola. If this works, I will keep six horses happy, and they will make me happy.
This plan will leave Anna, Pepita and Fiona (Farma's family) out in the field, as well as Anisette (Anna's daughter), who deserves to begin, and Wallina, who might be a perfect hack for rides in the forest. And there also are Therese and WaIk-on-Top. I do not know, which group I like better, the chestnuts or the grays and dark brown one. But I am willing to pass one of these two groups on to a rider, who might want to come to La Boulaye as a participant of the 'Association of Interdisciplinary Studies' to learn and gain experience in a real life work situation. And if that person also wanted to learn how to control a virtual 3D space, as well as loves to garden once in a while, he/she would be a perfect match (please let me know if it is you. C.S.).
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