The loop is easy

Schooled Gracie yesterday - lots of left lead canter work.  We can find that left hind leg faster now.  Then worked on canter-walk-canter.  Still really hard.  I mean really hard.  She pops me right out of the saddle, drops the right rein completely, throws her haunches all over the place.  sigh.

A little half-pass, trot and canter.  Sit in the direction of travel.  Not the outside.  The inside.  Also hard.  Left canter half-pass to straight to leg yield was better.  I am catching the hind quarters before they go flying off into the distance better.

Today I rode around the loop twice on Pico and once on Gracie.  Pico did a little leg yield at the walk and a little shoulder fore at the walk.  Mostly worked on tempo at the trot.  And relaxation of course.  He was his usual cute and adorable self.  Gracie loped a bit -- still amazes me that she can hold herself up well enough to lope now.