Tuesday

groom, liberty sticking together plus short range circle game, riding in the field, online circling game, canter/walk figure 8 pattern in the ring, shower, graze/dwell

Today we followed up on things from the weekend:

1. In the back paddock, I was able to invite/turn my back and hold up my hand and she walked into place putting her withers under my hand. We did stick to me and she did not leave. Then we did the transition into the circling game at about 5' away from me. Try absolutely got it on what we did in the Saturday liberty session but I was not surprised!

2.The riding in the big field. She was lovely and calm and we played with "where is Try thinking" little taps to walk on a straight line and circle and slower/medium/faster walks. Then trotting--jog/medium/fastish. Canter we did several laps both directions again playing with varied speed working on rhythm. At this point she got antsy and quit listening the circle/drive HQ method worked for awhile then I felt her thinking ugly thoughts on how to challenge me.

3. So went to the ring, allowed Try to canter on line a bit to get it out of her system and went back to the final task--playing with canter walk transitions on a figure 8 pattern and Try offered them at a canter nice and calmly.