Wednesday: I ride Try, BA rides Sephira

Try

• I loved being with Try
• Try has beautiful relaxed ground manners
• Try was helpful--thinking how to be helpful!
• We had a pleasant workout and review
• Hard to imagine a more pleasant horse to be with

1. We didn't get to just play which was the agenda for the day

2.  Looking forward to dwell time/graze/not ride

for me: I remembered the relaxed posture here and there, I want to visualize more, I want to apply the checklist, I asked with confusion for leg yield and Try forgave me on the spot.

Sephira

• BA said her trot has improved
• Her grooming is good--getting dappled--but weight a bit much
• She got a good workout
• She was happy after
• Girth issues

1. ?riding with contact??

2. fitness for upcoming clinic

These are BA's priorities not necessarily mine.

For me and Sephira:

• Learning to use spurs to cue--avoid nagging and find self-carriage (some day she will be so willing and helpful I will not need spurs).
• Quality of walk and trot
• Canter--pick up on first ask and maintain gait
• Move off my leg in zone 3--
• bending from my body on circles, serpentines, in the corners
• Ride on the big rail 
• check girth issues
• dance--soft eyes--have fun
• leg wraps

Scale of training: rhythm, relaxation, connection (physical/mental), suppleness, straightness and lastly and not now collection

Try and I farther along as a partnership than Sephira and I. 

Building the kind of foundation together that will yield a happy willing horse.

Levels: training, first, second, third, 4th FEI: Prix St-George, Intermediate I and II, Grand Prix