Noodles

I had a short  groundwork session with Remy this morning and he really felt like he was more in-tune with me. His halts were good, with less turning in towards me, he was staying at a good distance from me , respecting my space and seemed very focussed. His backing was really fluid with nice measured steps.
After my session with Remy, I took Corky out for a hack. We did a different ride today, one that Corky has done a few times, but it's a while ago and it all added to the excitement. We saw a family of deer in a field at the side of the track, they didn't move a muscle, even baby who was lying down, half hidden in the grass. Corky saw them and kept her eye on them as we went past but made nothing of it.

On our way back I had a chance to do a bit of schooling, with halts, reinback and some leg yield. Her halts are really good, if I still my seat and close my fingers on the reins she comes softly into a nice smooth halt. We practiced one or two halt/reinback/walk-on  transitions and she became lighter and much more mobile, even offering a reinback/trot transition which felt very nice. We had a nice trot on one of the uphill tracks and whilst it wasn't very active it did feel soft and relaxed.We stayed out for just over an hour and it was another enjoyable ride.
We gave the trailer training a miss when we brought them in from the field, both Jim and I were shivering it was so cold. It won't harm, it'll give them chance to thnk it over.
We've just had prawn and vegetable stir fry noodle for tea, yummy - who needs take aways!