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Lines Disease

Many of us are followers especially in a circumstance that’s new to us, a
circumstance where we may lack surety or self-confidence. “If you don’t know where to
go, go where someone has gone before!” But this approach won’t always work to your
benefit. I remember judging a show back in the day when Training Level 3 included a 20
m half circle from B to E. This was an adult amateur class first thing after lunch, and the
ring had just been dragged. Not a single hoof print was evident when the first rider
began her test. Her novice half circle was more of an hyperbola worthy of Halley’s
Comet. Predictably those neat hoof prints like magnets attracted the next six adult
amateurs to follow exactly the same errant path. Read More