Despite how chilled she looks in these photos it just disproves the old adage that the camera never lies .....
When we got to the yard today the school was booked out for a private lesson for an hour so we decided to long rein her around the field.
Saff was fairly good but was rather overexcited. She did some pretty good beginnings of piaffe, passage and levade with a bit of terre-a-terre and a mini capriole (I've seen her do better on the lunge).
She was about 18 hh today, beautifully arched neck and very stallionesque.
I think that we made it round the field quicker than anyone else in the history of going around the field :)
Apart from one spot (which she's bizarrely taken an intense dislike to) she was just very exhuberent and full of the joys of the first warm day in a long time.
The levade is definitely going to be a possiblity judging by today's performance! She just gets more and more collected and then levades.
She's a LOT more athletic than she appears when you see her on the yard and we can see the horse that she can be with more training. Even when she's overexcited she's not trying to run off and doesn't pull on the lines. Strange horse.
