Success at the Clinic

Starlight and I had a fun ride with Fred Kappler today at Lane Cove Dressage in Greene, NY.  We emerged not at all horrified and demoralized, as I feared, but instead, I was very pleased and she was her usual willing and steady self.  

Still standing after our ride.  Photo by Trish Pierce. 

For Starlight, it was her first dressage lesson, doing 10- and 20-meter circles, serpentines, quarter turns and the like.  It was positively the hardest she and I have worked ever during a single ride together.   

I was amazed, once again, by this pony’s cooperative personality and game demeanor.  She’s such a rock star and she received many compliments from Fred and from my friend Trish Pierce, of Foxwin Farm, who joined us on the journey and was very helpful as a groom, photographer, companion and pony complimenter.

Starlight and I were quite bad at the canter, but we did get it going both ways.  We’ll work on that. 

Fred was a kind and perceptive clinician, giving us the type of work we needed to knock the rust off of me and get Starlight using her body in a new, better way.   

Now I’m yawning and she’s dozing.  Two sleepy critters, content with a good day’s work.