I honestly don't know if she is or isn't, and I would like your opinions before I say anything to her.
I introduced her to horses last April (so a year ago now) and that doesn't seem very long but she REALLY took to horses, she had weekly lessons with me for six months then I changed barns to one without lesson horses so she stayed where she was. She still takes weekly lessons and also volunteers at the barn every Sunday. She wants to be a barn owner / horse trainer / instructor and plans on pursuing that after post-secondary. The barn owners know that and help her out teaching her during their spare time. She tacks up and grooms the horses before lessons and helps out in the beginner lessons. She is really bold while ridding and has no problems jumping without stirrups or whipping around on horses she had never met before. She wants to switch to my barn and buy her own horse to come ridding with me. She has gotten a job and is saving up for it, but I am just worried she isn't experienced enough yet, she hasn't come across a lot of problems (the school horses at her barn are very good) and when I owned a problem horse she refused to go out and help me with him because he was quite ...interesting... and didn't have any ground manners. She seems to get frustrated easily especially when the horses isn't listening or she can't do something right. Our barn is really helpful, and she would still be getting weekly lessons with my instructor...so she wouldn't be alone in the dark with horse care...but idk...
What do you guys think?
I introduced her to horses last April (so a year ago now) and that doesn't seem very long but she REALLY took to horses, she had weekly lessons with me for six months then I changed barns to one without lesson horses so she stayed where she was. She still takes weekly lessons and also volunteers at the barn every Sunday. She wants to be a barn owner / horse trainer / instructor and plans on pursuing that after post-secondary. The barn owners know that and help her out teaching her during their spare time. She tacks up and grooms the horses before lessons and helps out in the beginner lessons. She is really bold while ridding and has no problems jumping without stirrups or whipping around on horses she had never met before. She wants to switch to my barn and buy her own horse to come ridding with me. She has gotten a job and is saving up for it, but I am just worried she isn't experienced enough yet, she hasn't come across a lot of problems (the school horses at her barn are very good) and when I owned a problem horse she refused to go out and help me with him because he was quite ...interesting... and didn't have any ground manners. She seems to get frustrated easily especially when the horses isn't listening or she can't do something right. Our barn is really helpful, and she would still be getting weekly lessons with my instructor...so she wouldn't be alone in the dark with horse care...but idk...
What do you guys think?