Thursday, March 5, 2009

Back to School


Riding school, that is. The other school horses and I went back to work this week with the riding students coming for their weekly lessons. Nils was ridden yesterday and today. Here he is with Presley in the saddle. She is a good rider, and she was practicing her posting diagonals on the longe line during her lesson. Diagonals are tough to get correctly - posting up and down at the trot in the same rhythm and timing as the horse's outside fore- and inside hind-legs. They didn't get rained or hailed on - phew, but it's cold. Here they are taking a little break - isn't Nils the furriest horse you've seen in a while? If he is, then you haven't seen me! I'm glad to see you, riders - it must almost be Spring!

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