I am SO over Winter it's not funny.... Red however, uses these opportunities to take his dirt baths (can you tell?!).
Today, I took a day off work to get the grey beasty ready for his first show (among other things I had to do) ...
We started with the practise leading and trotting from the shoulder, which I am very pleased to say, he has mastered! He responds to the slightest command or suggestion now (a good and bad thing), but we're still fine tuning, and he's coming along in leaps and bounds...
Then we saddled up and made our way to the roundyard for our normal warmup lunge. Took some great pics of him.... I think perhaps it's about time I brought the lunge rein/side reins back into the picture - so just he doesn't get used to all this running about in circles with his head in the air. Maybe every 2nd lunge.... yes, that sounds like a plan.
After that, I jumped on and rode in the arena for a short while. Just the usual, walk/trot circle work to each rein. Some introductory yeilding etc ... He catches on very quick this boy. Unfortunately, no ridden shots, as I always seem to be out there alone so the only shots I get are from the ground or from between his ears, hehe ... I couldn't ride for too long today (this is Ride 9 by the way) as it was excessively windy and he was feeling a bit unsettled about it .... So we did the basics and called it a day ....
I then took him back and washed his legs and face (way too cold for a full bath; and I washed him after we rode, hence, his dirty face and legs in the pics), trimmed the santa beard under his chin, and thinned/pulled his mane/tail... He's looking very smart now .... All ready to go!!..... A few piccies below of our workout......
First piccy - warm up trot in the round yard....(forgive the blurriness, was off my mobile phone)...
Second piccy - Are we done yet Mum?! I really like this one:
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