Yesterday we did some flatwork - he wasn't overly up for it - suspect a bit tired after his running round the ranges the day before! Kept it fairly basic - just a stretchy session really.
Today I set up some exercises in the school - had some trot poles raised at one end, had 2 canter poles followed by a raised canter pole. And I had a tiny x-pole made out of planks on a 20m circle at X.
We started with some work on direct transitions, halt to trot and walk to canter then canter to walk - getting him sharper off my leg. Then we did the trot poles - he is prone to hopping over the first one which gets quite frustrating and he likes to go all giraffy over them - might try putting more than 3 out to try and get him to lower his head and look more. Then we moved on and trotted over the canter poles/raised 3rd pole just to make sure he was happy before cantering it - the distance was a little short and at one point he managed to jump the pole and the raised pole in one - oops! Generally he did it nicely though.
So then moved on to trot over the x-pole on the L rein - came round on the 20m circle and he threw a big tantrum - leapt in the air, spun to the left and reared. Naughty horse! Think being faced with a jump just took him by surprise. Walked him up to it and he was really looky at it. Turned round and came at it on the right rein as the plank are plain wood not painted on that side. He launched over it huuuuuge! Did it a few times from trot and canter on both reins and he was pinging! Thought that was quite enough for his first time jumping again!
Will do another little session of the same sort of thing next weekend and keep building on that. Aiming to do 2ft6 clear round in 2.5wks time.
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