Horses...it's always something.  Just when you're trotting along really having a good time, your horse steps on himself and pulls a shoe, ripping half his hoof with it.  You get some new, really  beautiful looking hay and your horse develops an allergy to it.  You get your horse fit, sound, ready to race, and a big piece of cardboard blows up the shed row, and boom, you're doing damage control.  That's the thing about horses...it's always something.

Dressage Diva

DRESSAGE training or the horse, oh and in my case the rider.  Why is it that a person can intellectualize why and how, but when it comes to physical reality, struggle with the implementation?  After riding for many years, I am back to relaxing a minute muscle in my inner thigh that involuntarily tightens when I think a fearful thought on my horse's back.  Trying to be a Good Do Be, my horse slows down or halts.  I can feel myself thinking it.  But I can't seem to stop myself from thinking it. I can react,and push the horse on.  But in  order to prevent it?