Exuberant Milva

Played 40min with Milva this morning. My innitial plan was to sit on her today and eventually ride her for a little bit. But while grooming her it started to pour down on us and I don´t want to put a saddle on a wet horse.
Of course I could have played with her in the ridinghouse until she would have dried and saddled her in there. But I first thought about that when I was driving home.
Our playsession was good anyway. I took 2 cones with me and the big plastictarp.
For the first 15min there was another horse in there as well so I couldn´t do as much cause the other horse got scarred each time Milva walked on the tarp.
I started with doing some figure 8s in walk and longreining her over the tarp (after the other horse had left).
Figure 8s in trott didn´t go that well. She simple didn´t want to change direction. Funny cause usually that´s what she loves to do - punk! Anyway because it didn´t work I went back doing change of direction in walk - no problem, head down and engaged. Trying trott again and she just started to trott faster and faster and complety ignored me. So I thought - ok, you wanna go faster let´s try a canter then :). And off she went, gallopping like a luniac for 1/2 a round with a snotty dragon face and bucking. After 1/2 a round she figured out it was way too much effort to run that fast and slowed down to a canter. Third round she came with her head down and started to look more relaxed so I brought her in and waited for her to start do chew - which took a while, much to think and digest.
After resting and scratching her for a while I asked for more figure 8´s in walk and started to do some Clover Leaf Patterns in walk over the tarp and finally in trott.
She gave me a few nice change of directions in trott with a nice look on her face - no problems there anymore.
Spent 1 hour of undemanding time with her afterwards with more scratching.
I bought another pair of Pikeur´s Jodphur ridingpants today. I bought the same pair 2 years ago and wear them alot. They still look like new but won´t last forever. I absolutly love those pants! Now they had the last pair in my size - better buy them before someone else does ;).
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