A Lunging We Will Go...

I LOVE this horse. Love. Love. Love!

Today, I thought I would just lunge the grey beasty - and work on transitions and over poles.
It wasn't a huge session, but he did manage to get up a sweat (not sure if that's a good or bad thing, hehe) ... There's really not that much to report, as it was like any other session I've had with him. He's improving with every lesson, he's more balanced, and he's looking great.

Oh! I lie. One good thing to report - he was not disunited in the canter at all this lesson! Huzzah! And he moved into canter almost immediately each time I asked. We can now go full circles; full decent looking circles... in a relaxed, balanced manner. Our first few canters were obviously pretty hideous; lacking any strength, no clue as to where our legs should go, and burning around at a billion miles an hour... Today, he moved into canter without issue, and maintained a very nice, quite balanced frame and rhythm.




We also did some trot pole work - no nosedives today! He was watching where he placed his feet this time. hehe. I had the intention of popping him over some small jumps, in a kind of lunge-grid type fashion; not so successful. In the picture below, you'll see the little jumps 'wings' - he just trotted over the 1st and 2nd tiers, haha. And on the 3rd tier, he jumped nicely to the left, but the right was pretty dismal. Ah well, haha, it was our first attempts at a lunge-grid - things an only get better from here on in. His pole work was very nice, and I was pleased with that. (Obviously, the 'jumps' were at the end of grid - I just had not moved them in this picture - I wasn't trying to make him jump mid-grid or anything, hehe)...


And what better way to end the day - than eating!! hehe. Huey and Red both enjoy copious amounts of lucerne - having finished their hard feeds. Spoilt... rotten... ponies!