Great post
March 4, 2009 | Posted by Melinda under Uncategorized |
The mugwumpchronicles has a great post today on training for the arena by being out on the trail. It as interesting to see the thought process of her (I think…his?) brain.
(for some reason I can’t embed the link today so here it is old-fashion style):
http://mugwumpchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/03/cross-training.html
I’m bad about training horses on trail. However they want to travel is fine with me (because I’m ignorant probably). I teach them about footing, up and down hills, manners, how I want to them cross water (no jumping!) ect, but I don’t worry about headset (happy horse = good head set right?), “lifting the back” (wouldn’t know how…) etc. *sigh* There’s so much to learn! I think if I live to be a 100 I’ll never get it! I REALLY need to get riding lessons.
Mugwump is a she, fyi. Don’t worry, I thought the same as you initially! Shows how our society is still a little sexist when dealing with horse trainers, dontcha think?
🙂
Elly
Yeah….What’s funny is the majority of the trainers I know are women! I was in a quaundry……would a women be more insulted to be called or man or vice versa? 🙂 I thought I remembered a post by her daughter about her “mom”, so I pretty sure I was right about “her”, but then I had to go and show my ingorance by putting the (). 🙂 Hopefully if she reads my blog she’ll get a kick out of it.