Monday, 27 September 2010

Chilly

I started off a decidedly chilly day in the school with Remy. A fifteen minute lungeing session, with Remy starting to relax and stretch down, followed by a short in-hand session including rein-back and shoulder-in on the circle. To finish, I sat on for a few minutes and we practiced halt/walk transitions and halt/ rein-back transitions. All in all a good session.
I then rode Anky in the school, continuing the work in walk trying to obtain more consistent softness and relaxation. There was improvement again today, she was as relaxed as I've seen her.  I started an exercise that Trudi showed me yesterday, Halt to rein-back, walk forward, turn on the forehand then repeat.
Anky struggles with the rein-back and wants to hollow, but today we had some good steps which improved the walk forward.
It was a really enjoyable session.





I started Anky on the Equishure yesterday and I'm hoping it will help her. She's not been too bad recently, but she is still a little gassy and bloated.

1 comment:

trudi said...

She's looking good, really concentrating and looks the picture of health!