Race With the Wind

Chapter 25

A.N.
Hey guys the music that I have there, I found it after the Ruffian movie. I think it is a good theme for Scooter. So guys that is Scooter's theme. The music is called- Two Steps From Hell- Love and Loss.
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The girls take us in after about two hours of grazing in the field. They take in Cara and me. I just sigh and tense up that Cara is doing some dressage with me. She wants to gut me. I'm scared of this mare. The mare stares at me with her cold, brown Connemara eyes. Her dapple grey coat shines as Leona brushes every speck of dirt off of her. Sarah brushes me with a hard brush and then she uses the body brush. She picks my feet with a hoofpick. She coats all four of my feet with hoof oil. She tacks me up in a black Prestige dressage saddle. The saddle feels weird. It has longer saddle flaps than the usual general purpose and racing saddle. It has a deep seat to. It's made of fine black leather. ''Perfect fit!''. Sarah chants. She secures the girth and sticks on my bridle. The bridle has normal reins and a snaffle bit. It is also made of fine, black leather. Leona has the same tack on Cara. Sarah jumps lightly onto my back and sits lightly into the saddle. ''It feels good to do dressage''. Sarah says excited to Leona. ''Yeah! It has been a while''. Leona answers. ''I hope I can show Scooter. She's a pretty mover''. Sarah says patting my neck. ''Yeah I'm planning on competing in the Connemara Show Classes with Cara.'' Leona says. I look over at Cara. She looks at me viciously. She pins her ears back. She looks at me hard. Her eyes as cold as ice. We walk into the outdoor arena. Sarah starts to do walk to trot exercises with me. She helps me to maintain my balance using weight and little nudges with her heel. She keeps a soft hand. I start to feel relaxed and I chewed on the bit. Sarah keeps going with being soft and maintaining my balance. I start to play around with my lips accepting her soft hand. I found myself relaxing my head. My back lifted up higher and I felt more collected. My neck and head had an arch. As we do a twenty metre circle down at C, Sarah rides me around the corner. I feel my body round into a bridge shape as I ride the circle. It feels good. My neck, back and legs feel relaxed. I start to snort. Sarah slows me down into a walk and she scratches me on my withers. ''Good girl!''. She cooed. She pats me in my neck. I look up the other of the arena. I see Leona and Cara doing beautiful work. The contact. The movement. It's like music working together to make a beautiful piece. Cara is calm. She is on the bit. She isn't overbent. She is a well balanced pony. Leona rides at a sitting trot. Leona trots a perfect circle. Who trains the girls to do this? They've obviously been trained to do such brilliant work with horses. Leona trots up to us and she halts. She salutes to Sarah. Like what the international dressage riders do after their test. ''Well done! You and Cara have really improved!''. Sarah praises to Leona. ''Well go on jockey! Show us what ya got!''. Leona orders with a laugh. Sarah gathers her reins and she trots down to A. Once we reach A, we turn down the centre of the arena. We do a working trot down to X. We halt at X. Sarah lightens her seat and flexes her stomach muscles. I stop. She salutes. She gathers her reins and she asks for a trot transition. I trot away down to C. Sarah sits tall in the saddle as she does her sitting trot. She lets the energy down through her heels. She uses her weight turn me right at C. Before I even know it. Sarah has me doing an extended trot down the diagonal from M to X to K. She sits into the saddle and uses weight to drive me forward. I don't know how I'm doing it. It's like a conversation between the two of us. She is telling me what to do- I answer back with move she wants me to do. We trot past A and we go down the opposite diagonal. We do an extended trot from F to X to H. I stretch my legs out. They hit the ground with a smooth and light movement. Sarah lightens her seat and I'm back to a working trot. We trot to A and then we go down the centre and halt at X. Sarah salutes and she pats me. Leona claps. ''Impressive!''. Leona says amused. ''How?! You never done much dressage with her?!''. Leona asks. ''I don't know? She just done what I asked her. I sat deep and she responded instantly. She's very sensitive. I'm impressed''. Sarah says happily. She pats me. I'm very surprised too. I just responded naturally to weight. She sat deep-I went faster. She sat light- I slowed down. She used pressure with her left leg- I went right. She used pressure with her right leg- I went left. So it's quite obvious that horses turn away from weigh and pressure. Thats how sensitive we are. We are quite amazing when you study flatwork. When you come to think about it, every single one of the whiskers that surround our muzzle, they are connected to our brain. People shave the whiskers when horses need them for survival. They are basically feelers. They send messages to our brain. Under our stomachs too are sensitive. Humans don't notice how amazing we are. They know we are amazing physically. They just need to know that we are amazing mentally. That is what dressage showed the girls there today. Once you have understood dressage, you can then do whatever you want. ''They are an amazing animal''. Leona says to Sarah. Sarah smiles. ''They are. All animals are. Dressage is a good way for understanding such an amazing animal''. Sarah says. I feel pride rise in me. I'm glad that some humans understand. We leave it at that for the rest of the day. The two girls throw us out into the field to graze.

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I also pointed out in that chapter that animals are incredible. I found that out when I started dressage. Horses are amazing physically. People see that. But! Some people need to understand that it is all mentally too. That is what dressage is. It's basically a conversation between horse and rider. Both physically and mentally. It's amazing. The way they respond to weight and the slightest change in movement. I think it is amazing. That is why dressage to me is possibly the hardest thing to master. I have it now. If you see the international riders, they have to make the slightest change in weight and position to make the horse to do a different move. That is how sensitive the horse is. Please keeps this in mind guys!! It is what people have to notice about the horse.
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