So many things, just so many things are happening. First of all college. That is enough in itself. No time for anything, but I'm making time to ride. By the end of my summer in Brownfield Duncan and I were doing simple changes. They were rough, but we were really getting somewhere.

We went from that, to barley being able to pick up a lead. Typically I would examine my riding for something this bad, but I have, and have not come up with anything. I have ridden a lot of horses over long periods of time, and don't think any of them have gone this badly. I have tried everything I have ever been taught to get him to pick it up. Leg yielding, doing a small circle and then cantering, squares... asking for the canter while doing the corner of a square. He does now know where his body is. It is almost like he has wobbels. He can't control his hind end and it's not a training error. I make my mistakes. My timing could always be better, and I could always place my hips in a better position when asking for the canter. But those things never stopped us like that before. I tried and tried to see something wrong with my riding, but when Terry came to New York and wasn't able to fix the problem, I knew something was going on. He knows what a lead it, and I really doubt it is his training. When we were cantering today and he actually got the right lead (going to the right is better) he couldn't even turn the corner. I don't even know anymore. Is it lyme? Does he have wobbels? This is not my horse, and I find it really hard to believe that he is doing all of this because he wants to. That just isn't Duncan.