http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpKyYPr06SM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0SjrFiGdI4
Blogger doesn't like me and won't let me upload, but these are both of one exercise from yesterday. The bicycling exercise was majorly helpful in the transitions, the changes of direction, and in helping him carry from his back. When I rode him today, he was more comfortable with the exercise and we practiced it a bit more. Changed him to a double-jointed loose ring of Amy's, which he was a little different in- played with it more, anyway- it's also a 5 1/2" which is bigger than the last one, and took the flash off his dressage bridle. Debbie says he needs to get 'wooden' in my hands (not in his body, he is not to hang on my hands, very different) so I have a contact to push him into, and Amy was telling me something about how they 'have to be heavy before you can make them light again,' so anyway, lots to wrap my head around and obsess over for the last long cold stretch.
Aly is not surprisingly a bit sore (they had their feet done yesterday and she's always quite sensitive to any changes) so she did five minutes of walk work to loosen up her back and got some Bute. Jayne was at the barn riding Clipper and he looks like a champ especially for all the time off he's had! But then again he adores her (must have something to do with all those cookies, hmm). I'm so sick of this winter crap- fell down in the driveway but the pitchfork caught me and saved me from serious harm. I need crampons for my field boots.
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