In running a lesson business, we constantly assess the state of our program: our horses, the exercises we do, tack selection, etc. I have been mulling over the quality of the lesson horses. Currently, I have four awesome ponies to use, and three of my lesson horses have been fantastic lately. We have a fourth being rehabbed, and we brought in another prospect (a 16.1 h gelding, as we needed a bigger horse); so hopefully one of them works out. Lesson-wise, it's fun to use photography and video to analyze our progress. I recently took these photos to show the rider's progress over a month. You want to look like you would land on your feet if you erased the horse out of the picture: she is getting closer to that!
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