Themes of today:
** control the shoulders - think outside leg to outside hand. dont let the shoulders swing when change the bend as change the rein. dont change the bend on the medium trot until after collected him back to working trot
** medium trot over poles to introduce the idea to him. he has a big length of stride. just need to give him the idea.
** he must work either up or down. up meaning Elem type outline, connected and through or down - round and stretching. none of this running flat on his shoulders all strung out. He will argue about it but need to contain him in the box that I set.
** in trot leg yield he must not make me try and bring him over with the inside hand, he needs to get off the inside leg - if he doesn't react to it then reinforce the aid stronger.
we ran through the trot work of E59 as plan was to get us working at Elem as competing at Novice. In general it wasn't too bad. Obviously his mediums wouldn't pass muster at the moment. But his initial trot and move off was good, the trot to halt to rein back to trot was lovely and the leg yields weren't too bad. Quite encouraging really as I expect he wouldn't find the the canter work too bad as that has really improved so could probably have a not too bad attempt at the test. Maybe next yr :)
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