I'm gonna be sore tomorrow. I rode Sham and Smoke, and I did some bridlework with Logan. I put the English bridle on him cause Sham uses the same bit. Cut his chomping down to nothing. I think he was chomping and gaping cause he could; I had the noseband on, and I had it on the third hole, so that he couldn't gape his mouth. He chewed, but he wasn' ( Read more... )

Woo! Progress! This morning I nailed that left diagonal about 98% of the time booyah! I rode Sham this morning and Smoke and Kissy this afternoon. Sham had issues with the roundpen gate, we'll have to work on it. Did lots of trotting to find my left diagonal, I could really feel it this morning. I guess after Lady, any horse is going to be ( Read more... )

Was going to get up at 8 and ride this morning... ended up getting up at 9 and riding this morning. I rode Smokey, it was... interesting, we did more trotting than I had originally planned on, but he had energy, so we trotted. And we worked on halt-trot-halt transitions, which he didn't like... but he was better about it once he understood that he ( Read more... )

I rode today. It was a good ride, we worked on transitons and a bit of collection, and rounding, etc. Sham decided to try and throw a bit of a fit with the cantering, head shaking and I think she tried to JUMP into the canter instead of just transitioning, but I felt her back afterwards like Dawnna showed me, and she didn't give me any indication ( Read more... )