Background :)

A little background info... I have been riding for about four years now. I started out at Perkins Farm, where I was very fortunate to learn a lot, very quickly. I really enjoyed it there, and leased several horses, including Foxfire Joey, an appendix QH gelding, Marissa, a Morgan cross, Elliot, an American warmblood, and Thumper (my favorite of the bunch :) ), a Halflinger. While I was there I trained with the owner for about a year, and once I started riding more often I started having lessons with a trainer that came into the barn, Robyn. Robyn ultimately taught me the basics of dressage and gave me a solid foundation. After a year or so of riding with Robyn I left Perkins. I took a short break from riding as I made the transition into my freshman year of high school. When marching band was finally over I started riding again, and decided music was just not my thing, I enjoyed it, but horses were way better. After that I went to Breezy Meadows for a year. It was a great opportunity to be around warmbloods that weren't just lesson horses, like Perkins had. I leased one of the Swedish Warmbloods, Chessie Girl. Sense there was no trainer consistently there Robyn recommended her assistant to come and teach me. I rode with her for about 6 months (I rode Chessie for a year) until Chessie was sold. Although I loved her, it was obvious that we were not the match I tried so hard for us to be. She taught me so much about horses in general, and also how to really ride. She was a different kind of horse than I had ever ridden, and also a mare... a very mare-ish mare. I found a deep connection with her, but just did not love working with her. After she was sold Robyn's assistant told me about a horse that was possibly for lease at Robyn's barn, where she boards and works. I contacted the owner and we immediately got along, and a month later I started leasing her horse, Conversano Druid (Dru for short). He is a Friesian/Lipizzan cross, who has done first level, and is working second. This brings me to the start of this blog, and my journey with him.