It's a camel. Made on photoshop elements 6. I take no credit for original images.
Sunday was weird - Wiola was away and Nicola came to teach. I was on Ada with P on Sienna, and the wind was whooshing and swooshing and pretty much petrifying the ponies. The trouble with Ada is that she usually sets the other horse off too, since her spooks are so absolutely over dramatic. We saw a squirrel in the field which was just too much pressure for her, and a few massive twisty bucks carried us from A to about M, where a sudden halt catapulted me out of the saddle and painfully (for both of us) onto her neck. I kind of scrambled back into the saddle and carried on trotting gaily around the arena whilst Sienna bombarded towards Nicola like a mad thing. I'm glad I didn't come off though, as it would have made her much more nervous. I'm trying to perfect my, 'I'm totally in control here' face whenever my horse bolts or bucks or shys. It's coming along quite nicely.
But the best thing about the lesson was that quite unknowingly, I got Ada into a amazing little outline! Call me rough but I've never really considered how the horse is exercising up until now, I was always more obsessed with my riding and position. But now that I'm fairly confident that I'm not injuring the horse by belting it in the the sides, I can start thinking about outline and powerful hindquarters*. We did a spiralling 20 metre circle at A, legyielding in and out in trot, and I looked down to check my diagonal and there she was, all pro-dressagey! I love this pony so much now, I'll be heartbroken when I grow out of her.
Only 5 days until the training day. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
*See how unpro I am? XD
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