Wednesday, 11 August 2010

One of those moments

I graded the school first thing as I wanted to lunge Anky and  it had become compacted and a little bit too hard.
I got up late (again) and it just took me ages to get going, so instead of taking Remy up to the school, I had a short flexion session in the stable with him before going up to the school with Anky.
I started with in-hand work, small circles and leg yields and then a short lungeing session with some trot work over the poles. I got on and she was pretty relaxed and focussed, I started  as I finished last session, from halt asking for flexion, then a walk transition, working on circles and asking her to move away from my inside leg. I then moved on to the leg yield exercise - walk down the long side, half circle back to the track and then leg yield, facing the fence, straighten and then repeat in the opposite corner. She gave me some nice steps of leg yield, followed by nice bend through the corner.  As I came out of the corner onto the long side, she felt balanced and soft in the hand with a slight flexion to the inside. It occurred to me that it would be a good time to ask for a trot transition, and almost before the thought left my mind, there it was, a beautiful, soft, round transition, followed by half a dozen forward moving, easy strides. I asked for a walk transition just as I felt her start to rush and she came back easily. In the scheme of things it was a very small thing, but in our world it was mega, definitely one of those moments..........

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very nice - it's lovely when things work like that!

allhorsestuff said...

Beautifully described "moment "of unison between horse and rider!
Could feel it :-)) ~ nice!
KK

Jeni said...

That does not sound like a small thing at all! Very nice when the pieces fall into place isn't it.

~Jeni