Didn't ride yesterday as it was flipping freezing after work.
Merrist Wood this evening. On one in the car park due to some flapping plastic tape. Walked round to the warmup to get on! Warmed up sweetly. New routine is to do plenty of walk then some stretchy round trot with lots of changes of rein and then a little canter with some medium canter to wake him up. Walk break. Walk-sitting trot-walk transitions with changes of rein, perhaps a bit of leg yield and a little bit of canter followed by some rising trot. Walk break. Final pick up rising trot keeping it soft and forwards.
Short arena tonight - bit of tension about some stuff against the wall. Didn't feel as soft and relaxed into my contact as on Sunday. Doesn't look hideous from the video though. Canter work felt quite nice and got straight 7's. She said the trot-walk-trots were rushed so need to work on those. Only a 6 for his FWLR - chucked away some marks there, must get him to stretch down and round more. 8 for his first centre line - that's definitely a first! He feels really straight and connected on the first centre line at the moment. Shame same cant be said about the last one where he wants to grind to a halt from the start and then yaws into the halt and stands like a donkey. It's hideous - must be able to do something about that! Anyway, we won! 67.92%. Class of 20 or so. Won by about 2%. 7777 collectives. List 5 judge. All good!
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