We schooled last night; the first time I’ve ridden since JP schooled (the journey home on Monday took forever, by the time I got back to Oxfordshire I had no energy left to ride with).<\/p>\n
It was interesting to watch JP with Vin on Sunday. He quickly established much more flexion and bend but with the same (light) amount of rein that I give Vin. However the left-rein canter issue… is still an issue.<\/p>\n
‘I understand the problem’\u00c2 JP said, after they’d both worked in for a while. ‘He’s physically dominant to the point where his head is telling him he can only perform left lead canter with difficulty – which is what he does, even though he clearly can perform a very soft, flexed left lead canter without difficulty’.<\/p>\n
Bless his little orange socks.<\/p>\n
So the plan is that I have to increase our straight-line left lead canter work and introduce more collection and reduce our straight line speed (which he’ll probably accept without argument) and then bring those collected, soft, flexed straight lines gradually around and down to 20m circles.<\/p>\n
Oh well, it’ll give me something to do over Christmas. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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