A bit windy again for our schooling session this week, Basil
was still good on the whole. I had
placed another pole on the ground (unrelated to the other) and this caused a
bit of spookiness. The sun was shining
and glistening on the white sections of the pole which often causes silly over
reactions. We walked down the arena and
past it but I needed quite a lot of leg!
After a few minutes of working in walk and trot with the emphasis on
calmness I brought Basil into the first pole (the one he has walked and trotted
over on many occasions now). I walked
straight on to the new one - this was too much and he stopped and went sideways
and reversed to avoid walking over! I
did a circle, not ideal I know but we had gone sideways past it by now, and
brought him back - he did a mini hop over it -but he did go over it! I brought him around a few more times until
it was no problem. We changed the rein
and he walked straight over it from the other direction! Sooo pleased.
We went away and did some more schooling in walk and trot,
doing circles, serpentines and changes of rein, he was not as supple on the
left rein as last week but it was quite windy and he was feeling a bit
spooky. We came back to the poles then
and trotted over them both on both reins, no problem, this is serious progress
and I am so pleased with our steps forward.
We had some good canters on both reins, our right canter was
a bit speedy as is often the case but he did settle, and no bucking either. His canter is so lovely I could sit to it all
day.
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Jo
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