"Time is the gift. Give it freely to your horse and you will both be the better for it." - Buck Brannaman

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Day 26- First Ride!!

What a wonderful day, and I couldn't have had a more text book perfect ride with Sophie! She did great, had a wonderful attitude and I was able to get a lot of forward movement.
First I got her using the thinking side of her brain- then I repeated my lesson from yesterday

And I made sure I could get her to give to me on both sides

She got lots of reassuring pets

Then we started getting her to disengage her hindquarters-

Which led to going forward and lots of changes of directions- always keeping her nose tipped inside!


Changing directions here...

Really encouraging that forward movement to free up her feet and her brain

She got the hang of it pretty quickly- and she felt wonderful (if only a little unbalanced and unsure)

I got up to a lope

And then we wound down and finished with her giving some more.

She's a pretty good girl. I couldn't have been happier about how this day went. And she will remember this ride her whole life- you can count on that!

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