Thursday, June 30, 2011

first canters

Nice session yesterday afternoon and this morning. Standing still for fly spray while tacking up, lunging for respect getting fun. Teaching w-t-c commands on the lunge. Jumped barrels well from the ground. Starting to lead by ropes on hind legs. Lariat around hindquarters very good.

Mounted: Calm at the walk, able to stand still a bit when mounting. Mount & dismount both sides good. Good bend in small circles, backing very good. Shoulder in both sides, little fussy when changing bend. Working on trot on a loose rein--he wants to canter. The canter is beautiful! But he needs to learn trot before we do a lot of canter work. Able to move around the farm without him getting too nervous.

Pitched one small fit from the trot and reared a couple of times. Resisted on one rein momentarily but was not too crazy.

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