As The Season Gets On

It always is fun to see the horses improve as the season gets on. To see them get straight and muscular, to see how, as their understanding improves, they get more serious and committed by the day. To watch them serve the rider with pride.

Sometimes I overtrain and, experiencing a set back, have to wait until they have overcome the difficulties I have created for them. Still I find the greatest difficulty in training horses to know if more or less work is appropiate in a given situation.

Fabian, after giving him a real work-out on the lunge the other evening, appearing to be frustrated and a bit cross, now does very well. Nidal on the other hand, after a similar work-out still is very cautious while getting straight. Leporello after doing very well under saddle yesterday, today was set back.