On Friday I rode Et for quadrille practice. I was relieved that I had spent some time studying and memorizing the pattern, since my partner was not there on Friday. It was a pretty good quadrille practice. ET knows the pattern pretty well, and doesn't have much of a reaction to horses coming and going near him. I'm thankful he is so good about it, he can compensate for my dumb mistakes. He is, however harder to keep with you in quadrille. When riding him it's very important to keep him on his toes and always thinking, so it will be a new challenge do ride him in quadrille and keep him with me all the time. It's not super strenuous, but it isn't like I can do a lot of transitions when I feel they are needed, and you can't ride with a long whip because it will hit the other horses. I don't want to fake it through quadrille, I want to really ride him and be together. He can very easily just do enough to get by, and be okay, but I want to do better than that. I want to ride him to the best of my abilities and show him in a way that he can be shown.
After quadrille I rode Duncan quickly. It wasn't a very long ride, as I hadn't ridden him a lot that week. It was mainly conditioning work. Just at the walk and trot. I rode in the dressage saddle. I half like riding in that... to be continued.
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