Great lesson!

[silkyraven]

We had a great lesson with Katie this morning. We’ve really been struggling to feel like we’re making any progress with the school surface being really too soft for him the past few weeks and the weather being awful. The surface is perfect this morning though, as the temperature has dropped, and he was so much better. Katie said he looked happier and more confident and he was just able to give a bit more when asked which was great. Still just transitions but including more canter (but only a few strides) and half transitions from trot to almost walk. Need to play about a bit really and use the corners to start working on bend but not too worried about that at the moment.

I lunged him with side reins on on Monday which I think was helpful too just to get him used to moving into a contact a bit and beginning to find his own balance. So I feel like things are moving forward which is great!