You're one of the girls I wanted to be! I cursed my parents for only one thing...not raising us on a farm so that I could have a horse!
If Oscar ends up not having horse sense, it won't be for lack of trying - he's been strapped to my back watching what I do since he was 4 weeks old!
I do love my jumping and cross country, for pure adrenaline, but I also really love the thrill of a harmonious movement that required the smallest of aids to achieve - when it's like Dante's read my mind - because it means I got it right!
My poor horse would collapse if I tried jumping him in the next few months, though - he is at perfect basic maintenance level now...which means that he's looking skinny, but not emaciated!