“Now tell me the next step.”

I held in my sigh of frustration and instead patted the black-and-white neck of the draft mare I was riding. “I don’t know,” I bit out in what I’m sure was not an appropriate tone for a freshman to be taking with her IHSA coach. 

“Well if you can’t do it at the canter, and you can’t do it at the trot, we go back to the walk and do it there.”