Our first real lesson and some photos...

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On Sunday Ben and I had a lesson, it was a mixed bag, his flat work which is normally not great was pretty good and his jumping pretty abysmal, but we can forgive that as we were focusing on jumping in trot (he's great doing it from canter). Anyway, I've put a little blog post up including a slideshow of some of the lesson. Sadly most of the photos were in walk as my father came up with the new camera, but got bored quickly and didn't take any in trot and only one of us jumping :/ but there are some nice ones in there if you look really hard :D next lesson on Friday... Eek!

http://bennevisthejourney.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/a-few-pics-of-our-lesson/
 
The jump you left up is great ;) trotted up to it (lazy horse trots uto jumps) and boinnnnnnnng we flew it lol I nearly fell off as wasn't expecting it lol opppps
 
lurcherlu said:
The jump you left up is great ;) trotted up to it (lazy horse trots uto jumps) and boinnnnnnnng we flew it lol I nearly fell off as wasn't expecting it lol opppps
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Ha ha, yep that was the only one we left up, he crashed through all the rest :p It took a while to build up something that he thought twice about crashing through! He's just such a bull in trot, but it's positive because even something pretty solid doesn't phase him :D x
 
Of course you can. He is currently in a straight bar Pelham but without the curb chain. The reason being that he was in a neue Schule double jointed, loose ring training bit (the ones with a lozenge in the middle), he was backed and ridden on in the NS but as time went by he became very fussy with his head, flinging it around and snatching the bit, being resistant to work. His teeth had been checked, so I decided to try something that had 'less going on' in his mouth. I didn't have any straight bars in my box and the only straight bar that we could find in my Yard Owners bit box that would fit was this Pelham. I initially tried it using just the top rein to imitate a straight bar snaffle and get a feel of how he responded to it, he went very well but kept trying to eat the lower shank (stupid horse) so I added the lower rein, which isn't really needed but has been handy when he gets a bit fresh and sticks his head in the air with me on hacks! It's not actually something that he needs on a daily basis or something I intend to keep him in, it's just what was lying around that I could trial. What I really want to find and put him in is something like a hanging cheek straight bar, which will give the slightest hint at poll pressure and minimal movement in his mouth (which is what suits him) I just didn't want to go out and buy a straight bar before I'd tried him in one. I suspect the Pelham will be retained for hunting with the addition of a curb chain though ;)
 
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