June 22, 2011
Prince and I focused on circles today. I was going to play with Changes of directions so we first tested our circles at the trot. Ten each way with only one send, with a change of direction in the middle. They went so well and the change of direction was so smooth that I decided to play with our circles at the canter.
Prince went into the canter smoothly and cantered eleven circles to the right with rhythm, relaxation and connection and around nineteen circles to the left. The reason there were more to the left was because Prince wasn't on the correct lead. He was trying really hard but just couldn't get it so I helped him find the correct lead and then he cantered easily eleven to the left also. I was so proud of Prince and couldn't believe how much effort he put into cantering that many circles with out breaking gait!!
We also did the same jumping task that we did with Twosox, standing on the pedestal with all four feet and then jumping off the pedestal, over the barrel and trotting to me. It took Prince three tries and then he got it and cleared the jump. On the first try the barrel was to far away from the pedestal so he stepped down and then jumped it. Which was still nice but not quite what I was looking for. So we tried until Prince nailed it, which was on the third try.
It was a short but sweet session and it was so much fun to play Online and not be preparing to ride, although both are great :)
Naturally,
~Keri-Lynn
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