.... this morning with Remy. It was a little breezy, but bright and sunny and I felt in the mood to do it! We stopped at the neighbours house so that he could investigate the back box off a tractor and an enormous vat being readied for the wine crop. He was a little jumpy, but didn't give me any cause for concern He walked calmly past the electric fence ( phew!) and checked the cows out all without any problem, went through the little wood and halted and waited patiently just before the road. The farmers were busy getting the maize crop in and were going up and down the road, but he was fine with it. He came home on a mission, but stayed calm and we got a nice, relaxed, but forward walk.
I went in the school yesterday and although we were really bothered by flies he was a good boy and was pretty focussed.
3 comments:
excellent. looks like you're going to have a hacking star there!
Great work. Just a thought about left/right. I think you maybe 'feel' it's worse on the right where in actual fact it looks better (certainly the SI) on the right because you have more correct bend on the right and it's a fraction over cooked on the left and you lose the outside shoulder a little (try using your outside knee/thigh a little to connect his o/s shoulder more, does that make any sense?
It does make sense Trudi, I do have a tendency to give away the outside rein, especially on the left rein as it feels so easy and I do forget to control the outside shoulder. I also get what you're saying about the right rein. Now that he's started to relax and bend more, and we get it right, it is starting to feel more correct. Thanks.
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