Good pony today. He was forwards from the start which just made everything soooooo much easier and more pleasurable!
Started with just doing a little bit of lateral work in walk whilst walking around waiting for Simon to finish previous lesson - just a bit of leg yield, shoulder-in, renvers.
Then moved into a warmup trot and it was lovely - really taking me forwards, it felt pingy, athletic and easy on both reins! Wasn't worrying about head carriage at this stage.
We did some work on a 20m circle, leg yield head to the outside then shoulder-in getting a bit greedier gradually with the amount of angle first. Anything involving right bend much harder for him but felt like he was trying. Then picked up the trot into an outline and it felt lovely - soft contact and he was soft and supple. Did lots of stretching down in trot in between exercises to encourage him to let go. We did a bit of the same lateral work exercise in trot. Then we did a bit of canter which felt pretty good. Must remember to keep soft through elbows/shoulders.
Finished with the turn on the forehand exercise on both reins and then moved into trot on the right rein which wasn't so good - he was resisting the contact, possibly getting a bit tired as had worked hard so will forgive that.
Hunting tomorrow with the bloodhounds as hoping that will be a little less wearing on my back and also I fancy something different to the normal draghunting. Probably little hack on Wed and then he's gonna have a bit of time off before we crack on again with some BD.
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