I took Stolle the Russian curly to Brookhill’s combined training event. We warmed up beautifully in dressage but fell apart when we competed. My reins were too long, Stolle gets nervous in the dressage arena and I started to fall apart too. He is such a wonderful and talented horse but he needed me to help him more to relax so he wouldn’t be looking around for scary things outside the dressage arena. Lesson learned. My job now is to teach him to relax and show his stuff and that everything will be ok. Jumping was another story. We had the best time, this horse can jump, in fact if you don’t bring him in right he can jump you right out of the tack. LOL. We really did have an awesome round.
Brookhill, C-ville, 3rd on Stolle!!!
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