Cold!!

Cold today, a shock to the system! It's too soon for cold weather, bring back the sunshine please.

I took Remy to the school, warmed him up in walk on a long rein, lots of changes of bend. Then onto small circles, asking for softness through the neck into my hand, letting him extend and relax, some shoulder-in and turn around the quarters trying to keep the softness. Lots of rest breaks then into some rein-back, which was very good today with a real feeling of coming together, the walk forward being full of energy but staying soft. Onto some trot work, transitions from shoulder-in and reinback. Lots of energy, more than I could handle at times, need to have manageable energy without losing control and balance. A mixed bag today, some really nice stuff, but the trot work was a bit all over the place. Nevertheless, I got the urge to canter, so before we finished I asked for a canter transition and although he gave me a few trot strides first, we cantered - our first canter ever.  I was pretty chuffed, but have the feeling it was too soon, don't know if it was, but just feel that way. Am I jumping the gun, should we be working on the canter when the trot's so far off being balanced?  LOL - out of my comfort zone again!