Today Catalina showed some real signs of maturity.
She will be 5 in July of next year and when i rode her today she was very focused.
I had not ridden her in a week due to personal things and so by all accounts she should have been very fresh.
There was a horse in the ring lunging and he gave out several big bucks while I was riding Catalina.
She never for a moment took her focus off me and stayed very relaxed throughout the whole thing.
Considering she was a very nervous horse at the start and quite "hot"
a year ago something like that would have set her off and made her quite tense.
Today a bomb could have gone off and she was my horse from start to finish.
She still sneezes when she gets nervous and this is a normal healthy reaction to nerves, however she still needs to learn when she does sneeze not to try and pull the reins out of my hands.
Today was a good day; I also began some work in hand as her piaffe steps will start next year.
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