Tuesday 23rd December

Today online with Blossom I played with:

Getting her to draw to me at trot.
Sideways in trot.
Sideways over a pole.
Backwards into the trailer.
Driving from zone 4 and 5
Started teaching her to back from her tail
Lots of circles (to get them soft)
Change of direction.
Jumping on a circle.

Everything went quite well and I will continue to work on all of these things for the next few days.

I then saddled and mounted and checked lateral flexion which was very soft today. We then walked round riding the rail and I would every few strides bend her to a stop to really get her used to doing this. I then added in 9 step back ups and also sideways. She was really good with all of this today and was really calm, so I asked for trot and she would do a few strides and then would come back to walk herself… I was shocked, Blossom stopping by herself!! Our session continued like this and she was calm all of the time and was able to trot circles and the come back to walk really easily!! I was very impressed with her today and I think it is one of the best rides I have had on he for a while.

Today with Smarty we let him loose in the arena to play with Benji, they only played a little as Smarty doesn’t really seem to know how to play.. But Benji worked really hard to get Smarty to play and teach him what to do, it was really nice to watch.

I then done a catching game with him with the help from Mareike, so after lots of galloping round not really knowing what to do with himself he caught me well and I played friendly game with him and the just walked him round the arena. Because of all his galloping about he was to tired and sweaty to do any play.