Horseback 3/14

Today I rode my friends horse Essie. My friend has knee problems and can't ride right now so I was helping her out by ridding Essie for her. I haven't ridden in a while do to some issues with work and my crazy busy schedule, however I just recently quit my job, so i'll finally be able to focus more on ridding. My instructor and I had a conversation about what my plans for my last summer at the barn will be. I told her I do want to show this summer, so she is having me memorize tests for the shows when I am not at the barn. I will most likely be showing Rebel this summer, but today ridding Essie helped me a lot. Essie is a more experienced dressage horse and I can focus more on my own body when ridding rather than having to help the horse understand what is going on, like I do on Rebel because of his lack of experience. I rode for about an hour today and did a lot of canter work.