It was hot today, but... it's gonna get hotter! And actually, it didn't feel quite as bad as it should have. And there was a nice breeze at times. So, I decided to ride Funny. I was tempted to go to Ashland and stay in the woods, but figured I'd do that tomorrow. (I was supposed to be working but then had my biopsy scheduled so moved work and then they postponed my biopsy... last minute, so.. I'm just gonna enjoy the day off). Plus I had already been to Ashland twice today. So that's what we did.
We hacked up through the pasture and did some walk to warm up. And she was a little bit fussy but not too bad. She was tense but not throwing a tantrum about it. And we got some nice walk fairly easily. We also played with turn on the forehand and turn on the haunches. Not too shabby.
We picked up the trot and played with it. Overall, she's so much better and her tempo is much improved. I'm just getting greedy now and want more balance and a slower tempo. But she was pretty decent. She was also a bit better in the connection today too. Sure, there were moments of head tossing and fussing but.. lots of moments of a really nice soft elastic connection. Yay! She was also better about bending today. Especially if I opened my outside thigh to give her space when we were tracking left. We did some cantering too and they were really quite decent today. And we did some transitions and she settled down to a nice trot pretty quickly. We even got one nice trot lengthen to working again. And we had some fun leg yielding too. I played with letting go of the inside rein and it also helped with her. (Not just with Lyric in my lesson today). Duh! We did some halts too, but those aren't great. I need to make a mental note to start practicing the "easy" test movements to gain some "easy" points. Like... we need to practice our centerlines and our halts so we can get good scores there. We also played with the stretchy trot today but it kind of sucked. She wants to run tracking left and gets too quick. But it is better and more bendy tracking right. So, I'm guessin ghtat my right stretchy trot tests will score better. We did a few walk transitions, within the gait and to the trot and back and they were decent.
She was a good girl and we had a pretty nice ride overall. Yay!! We headed home and she got a nice long bath. She let me spray her face off, although she was not happy about it, but then she wanted me to spray her in the muzzle. Right on her boop! Which, made it splash back at me. Hee hee. Silly girl!
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