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Flossie's 135th Lesson

FLOSSIE'S 135th LESSON

Flossie never balked with me today even when she thought things were looking scary near the
fenceline where she's been spooked before recently I did a lot of different things with
her, breaking the routine as much as I could. I wanted to keep her focused on me, and I
must say she did extremely well.

I can feel her every movement with this new numnah I just purchased. It took me a while to
get used to the sensations. It's almost like riding bareback. Every gait had a
different feel.

I had her working on cantering in the paddock. Somehow she thinks she's supposed to go
as fast as she can, so I'm working on slowing her down. Next week I'll have her
doing giant circles at a canter to see if that does the trick.

Des and Gary went halves on another horse. This time it's a filly. She's the same
age as BamBam and Blaze. I'll have to get a photo of her. I love her dark color.
She's also a character and I like her horsenality.

The mare Des and Gary had brought down from somewhere up north is going back again because
she just can't get the hang of running around the track in the opposite direction that
she was trained to do. Up north, horses don't race in the same direction!

I told Des I'll be in Sydney next Monday, but I plan to ride some other morning next
week if the weather is good. He likes it when I take Flossie out of the big paddock and
ride her down the driveway because it gets her away from her 7/24 environment.