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Goatgirl


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my horse is scheming i think
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So this wkend was gorgeous...but humid..(complain complain complainaww)  It was gorgeous the rain has finally stopped and our weather was what it's supposed to be for this time of year....was great...

So I rode my green mare and she was fantastic - she's learning to carrry herself and she's lovely and forward and willing   - she's awesome...

Then I got on got on my gelding with whom we've been working on pirouette and canter half-pass and all this stuff...so the moment I got on him I knew he was 'not in the mood'. Both of us I think were feeling cranky and sweaty. It was around 6pm but still warm and muggy...anyway he was like:

'you have got to be kidding..'

'ais Hate you..'

etc...in his general demeanor - completely flip side from Saturday's ride...

So I'm okay..we'll finish off with a canter to walk both ways and leave it...and I took off my stirrups - because I always finish my ride with 15 min of stirrupless work so I was already stirrupless...

I ask for a canter and my horse goes 'ohhh piaffe' - so he SITS DOWN into a real piaffe and starts piaffing...and I'm like no...Canter - so we get a  p- off canter..and I'm like okay so what am I doing here that he thinks piaffe.  so I do my 'check-list' and nope...I'm good...and we ask again.. and AGAIN he sits down - and same thing...

so then i'm like okay pitch him the reins I don't care what happens I just want canter....so I pitch him the reins loose rein i ask for canter...he sits down on a loose rein and starts his piaffe...

by this time I couldn't help myself I started laughing ...the more I laughed the more 'expressive' his piaffe on a loose rein...became....

I finally just thought one canter and done...got my canter on a loose rein and quit him there

I'm thinking the piaffe was used when Horses were the 'tanks' of the battle field - riders used to run down a foot soldier and then the horse would grind him to a pulp with a piaffe...

Do you think my horsie imagining me beneath those hoofies...is he plotting to grind me out...aww



-- Edited by Goatgirl on Monday 6th of June 2011 11:00:16 AM

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Gotta laugh.
I have found that piaffe is a horse's way of sayin, 'you want what, by me, ain't no way'.

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The question is what are the similarities of your seat or hand or uprightness or xyz for piaffe and for canter?  The horse only responds to what it thinks the rider is asking.  Put the horse into a piaffe pirouette, walk out, canter.

Throwing the reins away in piaffe and the horse staying in piaffe would tend to tell you it is the erectness of the seat that is holding him there (very clever horse!).



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indeed Barnfrog - I do think you are correct in what I was likely doing...with my body....have been going over and over in my head...I think I should have just gone for gentle hack that day...given both of our 'mind sets' ...... especially mine tired, crabby, and probably not as entirely 'there' as I should have been.

My boy is very very intelligent....he figures things out pretty quickly....and gets bored very quickly too - he's a good boy - a lot of fun. (but I'm biased)





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