Dom Schramm?

So, last night Taylor took me to ride with this guy ↑ right here. His name is Dom and he's from a place called Australia.... I don't know where that is, but it makes people talk funny. It was SO cold and rainy. When Taylor came out to catch me I was soaking wet and it was POURING down rain. She must have made a mistake by coming out to the pasture.... there is no way she actually wanted to catch me.... I made sure to run away from her for a solid two laps around the pasture just to make sure she actually really wanted to catch me (plus, if I have to be soaking wet, Taylor should have to be too.) When she finally caught me she threw my cooler on me and stuck me in a stall to dry. She did that thing again where she rips my hair out. Apparently it's called "pulling a mane" and it makes my mane shorter.... HELLO, SCISSORS ARE FOR MORE THAN JUST CUTTING OPEN FEED BAGS. Anyway, after I dried off a little bit and had dinner (my favorite thing)

Had to make sure Taylor wanted to catch me.

Taylor loaded me on the trailer.... all by myself..... and pulled out of the driveway. When we got to the farm where Dom was, it was sleeting sideways. I've never been so cold in my life!

Where are we?!

When we were riding Dom told Taylor to canter me in a half seat, and not put weight in the saddle. Because I'm young, when Taylor sits on me, I get lazy and add a fourth beat to my canter. I don't know why they care, but for some reason they think that's a bad thing. Whatever. The theme of the lesson was adding and removing strides without changing the canter. That was fun. I learned a lot. Then Dom had Taylor really ask me to move forward and gallop a line of jumps to leave out two strides. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. I really liked that. Dom really liked me too, he kept saying "Sooooopah cayoot pony." I'm adorable. I know it.

Soopah!

Dom and his pony jumping a huge jump.... hope I don't ever have to jump that big...