Horse: Quiz
Bit: Straight Shank Roller Bit
Time: 1 Hr
Ride: My lesson went well... I sure
wish I had the time to ride Quiz more, but, nonetheless I always walk away with
something to mentally run through in my head. For our warmup, my trainer had us
posting-trot pole bending poles. We then moved onto loping those poles. Quiz
was swapping leads, and as you know I struggle to know 100% which lead i'm on
at all times, and so that was frustrating. However, I'm starting to figure it
out more and more. I've always had a hard time focusing on the entire package
of rider + horse, and now i'm figuring out timing and feel more and more.
Loping the poles I was bending Quiz more than I
should have, and so I was focusing on keeping her straight, and I think she did
really good. She's such a quick, zippy horse, I really do love riding her and
my trainer noted how she is starting more and more to use her back-end, and how
exercises like this really help her with that. Then we jogged and then loped on
an entirely loose rein. Quiz, of course, was zipping around on the lope, but it
was a pretty cool feeling totally abandoning contact and just letting her do
her thing for once. The thing we need to work on is breaking down from the lope
to the walk, Quiz digs in and stops, instead of just slowing down into the
lope. Causing me, of course, to look so graceful. As always.
For Next Time: Keeping her straight
through the poles, working on breaking down from lope to walk, and as always,
focus more on the entire package.
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