Come take a lesson with me as an adult ammy

I started riding after I graduated college because A. poor and B. it just seemed so insurmountable to get started. As a child I could sucker my friend into occasionally letting me ride her horses or my family would pay for us to go trail ride which was always a blast.

Here’s my recap of a lesson as an adult ammy who started riding as a full on adult:

First we pray. Because we are adult ammys & everything stresses us out. I start out by hoping in the truck and managing to hook the trailer up on my first try (rarity)! Thank you to this fantastic $10 piece of technology.

My friend was riding her horse so Skye was losing her mind as I loaded Murphy up since she was the only horse left. And yes, I thought about taking her but that just seemed the worse option since she would be tied at the trailer while I was having a lesson on murphy and she doesn’t idle well.

Side note, the best functional lesson I’ve ever taken was trailer loading (with this wonderful trainer @ CPhorsemanship). I now honestly have little to no problems loading because I took the lesson and then we’ve put in many reps now. Murphy  loaded RIGHT UP on the trailer and started munching on his treats/alfalfa.  I am able to load him then go around and secure all the doors and stall dividers and waits on me.

I haul about 10 minutes down the road to meet at my friends house where our trainer comes out to us.

Enjoy this mundane video of me adjusting the saddle and fly spraying the bestest boy

We then ride for 1 hour while I sweat my heart out. Even if it’s a “bad” ride, it’s the highlight of my day. He had his thoroughbred freak flag out so I just quietly rode him to get a couple nice transitions , some solid shoulder in, leg yielding and a couple of canter transitions. Going into the lesson I was thinking we would be able to go through a few jumps but alas my fault, I did not get the canter work done enough before the lesson to do this.

Enjoy this grainy video of a working trot not at this lesson because I have virtually no footage of me riding but I am going to work on this!

After this I untack, hose him off, fly spray, load up and head home! I am so lucky to live in horse country Kentucky and having a quality instructor come out to us!

here's my rig setup: diesel titan XD. Warmblood 2 horse straight load trailer w/oversize tack room

A key takeway at the end of every lesson I have with my trainer is a deep sense of accomplishment and harmony with my horse. I think this is the mark of a great trainer.

happy trails.

-A