Thursday, 3 September 2009

Dodging the rain..........

....this morning with Remy and Anky. I took Remy into the garden to practice our lungeing technique (said in the very loosest of terms!!). I had an "I am totally useless at this" moment when he got confused and instead of walking on he kept coming in to me, but we continued and he did 'get' it and we walked around on both reins. For our next session I will take him up to the school and with Jims help, take him out onto the circle properly.

Anky has a scratch across her back where the saddle would lie, so she's having a couple of days off hacking. I took her up to the school again for a short lungeing session followed by a little in-hand work. This is all experimental for me but I'm taking Trudis advice and I think with a combination of Anky moving better and perhaps me starting to get to grips with it we're making some progress. Today we got some nice steps in shoulder-in and then leg-yield.

I've just put some Himalayan Salt Licks in the stables and Anky spent a good five minutes licking it this morning. She obviously needs it. Bonbon thought she'd like to share!!

4 comments:

trudi said...

Sounds like you're all 'getting it' as it were ;-) cool!!

Claire said...

molly lover her himalayan salt licks as well, they are great - these days i buy the biggest i can find!

that's a great pic of them both!

HorseOfCourse said...

"scratch across her back where the saddle would lie" - I can relate to that. Sounds almost like you have had a visitor from Norway?

Di said...

Sorry HofC, I don't understand. I think she's rubbed herself on a branch or something.