Starting and Stopping

It's been very cold today, a real feel of winter!
I took Remy up to the school to work on my halt and walk transitions in-hand. He was very attentive and although it was a little blustery he remained focussed.
I need to sharpen up the walk transition and to help this we worked on rein-back from the halt into walk on and he became more forward into the walk transition and it felt like he had good energy. The halt's been a bit muddy and he has a tendency to push his quarters to the side, so I asked for the halt only against the fence line to stop him doing this. After a few attempts he started to become much lighter and cleaner into the halt.It was a good session and I finished by walking him back home down the lane.
I then took Anky out for a hack, first time in a while and she was a star. We were out for about 40 minutes and we only walked, but it was a full session with lots of halt, reinback/walk on transitions. On the way home she was really nice and foward without rushing, and at times reaching for a contact, soft in my hand from a few feather like touches on the rein and I felt like I was riding the whole horse. A lot of it felt good today.
I must remember to wear my long boots when riding, my legs were freezing!!