Today was a fairly good day for the horses.
Buster was first today. He felt really good at the walk and trot...minimal wiggling, good balance and steering, mostly obedient, so I decide to just try this whole canter thing one more time. Now that I know what he does hn I ask for canter (shoot forward, dodge around) I prepared a little better. I shortened m stirrups a hole do I could get out of the saddle a bit and really step down in each stirrup. I rode with a shorter, steadier contact, and when he was in canter I wrapped my lower legs around him a bit more and really clung on with my inside leg around the corners so centrifical force couldn't throw me to the outside. And viola! A canter! We cantered the whole ring in both directions and he seemed to settle into it so I think we are good to go now, the first real canter is out of the way! We also did our first trot poles and he did really well!
I rode Doc next and did work out of the ring and on some hills and managed to get a nice forward step at the trot and got him to soften his jaw for much I the ride, so hooray!
Gabe had the weekend off which seemed to cause him to be a little anxious and stuck today but we still got our three gaits fairly forward and straight.
Bear even felt pretty goo today and we worked on stretching at all three gaits and staying steady and relaxed over trot poles.
Off to teach!
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