Monday, July 11, 2011

Weekend Riding

Thursday was supposed to have a riding lesson, but didn't quite happen.  Pico got a around half an hour in the morning warming up, but that was my riding for the day.  Friday and Saturday Lindsey Joy rode Gracie and I rode Pico.  Sunday Lindsay K. rode Gracie and I rode Pico.  You would think that means lots of training for Pico....  but not so much. :(  We did start working on the exercise that goes -- shoulder-in along long side, trot across short diagonal, leg yield along rail on opposite long side.  The first part is straight-forward, the leg yield is very very hard.  Still playing with leg yield -- he goes over nicely, but there isn't any cross-over.  To work on that I started haunches-in.  That's difficult, but beginning to happen.

Gracie was pretty stiff Sunday and short off her left hind.  She has some scrapes from an incident over-night, so perhaps that's the problem. Lindsey J spent time yesterday working on her showmanship skills with her on the theory she is going to try her Sunday at the buckle show, so she needs to be sound.

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