kit279
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The little Halling horse thoroughly polished his halo today.
He went for a jumping lesson in Leicestershire today - having never done anything other than some poles on the floor and a single cross pole once before and he was super cute. We worked a little on the flatwork first and the trainer (Jane Wallace who was as usual insightful and excellent) told me that I'm slightly over-riding everything, need to get my leg underneath me more and that the little one is very trainable and doesn't need strong aids in order to get the idea.
Halling was a wee star all day (bar an incident where he tried to have a roll in the trailer
) and jumped like he'd been doing it all his life. I've always had a soft spot for him but he was just foot perfect today.
A little video of Halling:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDB4tlYbMzU&feature=youtu.be
Super keen!
Must jump trot poles...
..in addition to cross poles!
Still disinclined to trot the poles properly!
But super keen down the grid
Kallie came along for the ride too and he had homework to do as well - needs to learn to get his big legs underneath him and respond more sharply to the aids, particularly the downward transitions.
A very good exercise that Jane suggested was to trot a quarter 20m circle, then transition to canter for a half circle, transition to walk and immediately do a turn about the hindquarters and immediately transition to canter out of that and canter for a half circle before transitioning to trot for a quarter and repeating the turn about the hindquarters. The speed of the transitions really got Kallie thinking, listening and sitting back on his hocks waiting for the next one.
He was a bit knackered after being thoroughly put through his paces on the flat so was a bit tired for the gridwork so I'll forgive him for being a little uncareful but hopefully he will improve with some regular grids.
Kallie says 'ooph..'
Thanks for reading
He went for a jumping lesson in Leicestershire today - having never done anything other than some poles on the floor and a single cross pole once before and he was super cute. We worked a little on the flatwork first and the trainer (Jane Wallace who was as usual insightful and excellent) told me that I'm slightly over-riding everything, need to get my leg underneath me more and that the little one is very trainable and doesn't need strong aids in order to get the idea.
Halling was a wee star all day (bar an incident where he tried to have a roll in the trailer
) and jumped like he'd been doing it all his life. I've always had a soft spot for him but he was just foot perfect today.A little video of Halling:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDB4tlYbMzU&feature=youtu.be
Super keen!
Must jump trot poles...
..in addition to cross poles!
Still disinclined to trot the poles properly!
But super keen down the grid
Kallie came along for the ride too and he had homework to do as well - needs to learn to get his big legs underneath him and respond more sharply to the aids, particularly the downward transitions.
A very good exercise that Jane suggested was to trot a quarter 20m circle, then transition to canter for a half circle, transition to walk and immediately do a turn about the hindquarters and immediately transition to canter out of that and canter for a half circle before transitioning to trot for a quarter and repeating the turn about the hindquarters. The speed of the transitions really got Kallie thinking, listening and sitting back on his hocks waiting for the next one.
He was a bit knackered after being thoroughly put through his paces on the flat so was a bit tired for the gridwork so I'll forgive him for being a little uncareful but hopefully he will improve with some regular grids.
Kallie says 'ooph..'
Thanks for reading
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lovely paces and obviously enjoys the job!!! 
