Today was a pony club mounted meeting with a guest instructor, Anna Collier. Since the Jump for Joy schooling show is rapidly approaching, I was looking forward to working on our jumping in another arena of different jumps. Deuce was fantastic! After warming up, we first trotted and cantered over 6 canter poles placed 10' apart down the long side of the arena. This helped all of our horses lengthen and regulate thier stride so we could get better rhythm to the fences. Then we put a course together that incorporated going through the grid both directions. This made a huge difference in Deuce and I's ability to go forward and come back and balance.There were some difficult tight turns and some biger (novice height?) verticles and an oxer in a 2 stride, but Deuce did great with all of the new fences. He was focused and ready for jumping. What a good boy!
No comments:
Post a Comment