I was up at 4.30am on Sunday to school Lexi before my uni day. We did a lot of work on our halts and its evident to me we need to do some serious work on our straightness in our downwards transitions. But the canter was better.
I lunged her Monday night after work, nothing exciting to say about that, then went on a lovely long hack to do canter work yesterday. She was superb and really enjoyed herself, and went twice up the big hill. Still had to take it fairly steady as was slippery and icy in places but we got the work done. However when I got back I was horrified to see my lovely Albion girth had rubbed a big bleeding hole in her.
Lots of sudacrem!
I had a jump today, managed to patch her up with a different girth and a fluffy guard and she was super. She was a little sticky at some of the fillers at first but with leg she popped over them regardless. I had told my friend who was helping to bully me and we ended up jumping a 90cm-1m course and she was perfect! Probably some of the biggest fences I've done on her and about time. It was no effort to her.
We need to work on our balance round turns but I got a bit of a feel of how to ride for a nice bouncy canter towards the end.
Missed the bit in the corner before the last fence where she threw an almighty buck!
Unfortunately the rub looked a bit sore afterwards so she's going to have a day lunging before hopefully going cross country.
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