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Born in Sg, survived seven years of IJ, escaped to canada for the miraculous rebirth.. likes to say she found self there, But well when can we reach self actualization? now a waterloo student. 110% horse mad, was practically born on the back of a horse ( or rather wishes she was) horses are my favourite thing.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
RIDING POST

AHAHAHAHA

I now once again can start blogging about riding! i have not done this in a very long time !

It was actually really snowy as me and rodrigo made our way the bus stop. Not scratch that, it was a BLIZZARD OUTSIDE. We also missed the bus and had to wait 10 minutes for the next one. So by the time we got to the GO station, the usual train had just left....... just great we were supposed to be ON that train......
so waited for th next one, it was supposed to arrive at 5.15pm, that would only make us just on time for the lesson at 6. BUT the stupid train was not only 10 minutes late but DID NOT EVEN STOP!!!!!!!! so had to wait an additional 5 minutes for the next train to come. I figured we would be pretty late for the lesson.
Once at exhibition, the weather was as blizzardy and windy as ever with the snow thick. It was about negative 7 or 8 degrees plus wind and snow. HONESTY the lengths i go to for my sport! walking through a fucking blizzard.

In the end i was not too late for my lesson, there was still time for me to get my mount for the lesson, a chunky chestnut mare called seven ready. When i first saw her i thought," oh gosh, i have my work cut out for me, she looks like a lazy one"

didnt have a lot of time to do a proper grooming so i just did a quick once over brushing and tacked her up. We were doing jumping this week, and seven was a surprising light ride! with her side i expected her to a slow to get moving but to my surprise it was just like riding someone light like a slender thoroughbred. I just had to tap a little with my leg and she moved forward, and with a subtle change in seat and leg pressure would halt. SO EASY!!! and an unspoilt ride! i expected horses like her to spoilt by bad riding and be slow, stubborn and difficult to ride. But she was quite the opposite! I even could get her into a frame and outline in the walk! it was fantastic!! i also worked on getting my leg forward more cos it is problem i have, even instructors in singapore have told me. We did some work in jumping position ( she didn't even slow when i got up to jumping posiiton! now THAT is how all horses should be!) and i think i really managed to improve my posiiton. After trot poles we moved onto some cross poles, she was very easy to turn and wasn;t the type to charge toward the jump or even slow, she was very calm and collected and maybe even a little slow, but still jumped well!
I really had a great lesson!!!