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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Training: Thursday bareback and Saturday quadrille - Max's FIRST quadrille!

Another combination post here...I've been so tired after getting back from the barn in the evenings I've been slacking with posts. I'll have another post covering a Double Dan clinic that I audited today!! So awesome! And he's quite the looker! ^.^ (sorry husband..lol)

Thursday was a pretty lazy day so I decided to free-lunge Max and do some bareback. It's funny how confused he gets every time I let him run around the arena at liberty. He won't move till I start encouraging him which I appreciate. Such a good boy.

After I let him run around for a bit I decided to brave some bareback. I think it went pretty well! I kept my balance most of the time, and we even tried some canter and trot to halt transitions.

Today I signed up for the quadrille lesson and the four of us had a blast doing different formations and canter circles. It's Max's first quadrille and he did very well. We were paired up with a large, ground-covering Friesian so it was a great learning experience getting him to match his gaits! The best part though was, during the canter circle the instructor had me push Max into a gallop then bring him back into a collected canter before trot. He was a 100% with me and did an amazing job as we smoothly shortened the canter. I couldn't ask for more awesomeness from him today.

The four of us ladies decided to abandon the arena for cool-down and head out on the trails. It's so much fun riding with other folks, and I'm lucky that pretty much everyone who rides there is super nice and drama-free.

On to the post about Double Dan!



2 comments:

  1. as far as i'm concerned, any bareback ride that doesn't end in a fall = success lol. and that drill lesson sounds so fun! we used to try drills at my first barn, so it's been ages - would love to try it again :) glad you had fun!

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    1. Yes, I agree! My legs were so tired by the end they were shaking. I'd love to do more drills too, would be neat to do one to music!

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