Tillie prep for the season

I have been focusing a lot more on Tillie - partly because she needs it and Kiss is way easier to maintain - but also because we have lots of holes that need fixing with her being off last year.

I took her to Windurra and attempted to try a waterford bit on her and well, lets just say, she HATED it.

You can see how she is practically running through it - sure her head is up, but she was pissed.

More in the waterford...you can tell she's just rushing and unsettled. So we only did one more set of jumps before Dom had us change back to our original bit because our steering was a bit altered from how distracted tillie was:

She settled down a little but still was holding a bit of a grudge...however Dom upped the difficulty to get her thinking which helped throw her a curve ball and get her mind off being mad.

She was being a super finicky ride at this point but the good moments were starting to come through. She surprised me with how straight and confident she was to to the skinny...which tend to be her nemesis when we havent seen them in a while:

Then we moved on to the water which really showed my lack of trusting to start this season...and learning to need to stop wanting to always do the add:

ANNNNNDDD the blooper of the ride...our first attempt at this corner combo. Which was hilarious...and took me off guard because Tillie's approach was good until the last stride when she decided the grass was horse eating and she wanted nothing to do with it. 

Dom wanted us to keep going to the jump into water and im pretty sure my pants matched the first time through (Remember my fear of downhill?!)

But we scraped through it and of course had to do it again:

So I felt good going into fair hill last weekend. But more to come on that soon.