Today should have been a relaxing stretch day for the Small Brown one...still too wet to turn out, so variety, variety, variety needed to keep him sweet....
Yesterday was canter work...as we are running out of time before D day (or should that be E Day??!!) on Sunday, wanted to run through canter sections before lesson on Thursday, so I had a concrete plan for things to work on...transitions now have more jump,but still need to focus on the softness and relaxation into the upwards. Sit deep, look up!!! Having digested ideas from video, shapes are now much better, especially 15m circles. Have focused on using the corners to give us time to prepare, especially for 5m loops...otherwise we find ourselves too far up the arena and not back at the track!!!
Popped him on the horse walker for half an hour before heading down to lunge pen...beautiful day...bright, crisp, not too cold...unless you are a naked dressage pony..in which case it is cause for great excitement!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzDznR9QhH8
Oh dear....took a good 10 minutes for there to be ANY stretching, far too busy have fun snorting and doing best arab impressions :D
Got to love his enthusiasm...is it only Wednesday??!!!
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