After trying the new treeless over at Trudi's yesterday, I rode Anky out in it today but set the stirrup bars back a little and put the knee blocks on. I'm beginning to like it quite a lot. It felt better with the new stirrup settings and blocks and allowed my leg to fall more in alignment. After my last hack with Anky, I'd already decided to avoid any kind of argument and get off and lead her at the first sign of resistance to continue, so when she refused to go past the stone cutter building I got off and led her past all her usual scary things. She was quite happy to follow me and after about 15 minutes I remounted and we continued on for a while before returning for home.
She was much more forward on the way home so I concentrated on keeping her straight and soft and she was better today. We had two or three short trots and the saddle felt fine.
I had a young girl call round last week to ask if she could use the arena to school her horse. As I haven't got a proper grader and it's been getting quite hard, her father offered to come round and loosen it up for me. Yesterday whilst I was at Trudi's he came round and did just that. I wasn't here so not quite sure what he used, but it is very soft now( a little too soft, I think) , but I've levelled it today with my little pallet and I think it's going to be fine. I took Remy up there this morning before I levelled it and he loved it - for rolling in - hmmphhh!
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LOL at Rem!!
Glad the plan worked with Anky.
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