Some of you might have those horses that are naturally tense in the back and have a hard time developing their back muscles. Super Kid is one of those, I don't know if she was taught the meaning of forward and down or long and low, but its a CONSTANT argument with us. Last year my mom being the smarty she is said to take the lunge line through the bit and clip it to the buckle on the saddle( that works if its a dressage saddle or you have long billets) You ask the horse to go out on the circle then every few strides tighten the line so their head moves just a little. Then release, and if you do it right they will start stretching out their backs. At the end of this video you can see her start to,after we focus a little bit better.
Anyway so we spent about 10 minutes doing this then about 10 minutes line driving. I love line driving, you can see what you horse looks like doing something, or getting a baby ready to ride. This is also a relatively new concept for Super Kid. Anyway we did shoulder and haunches in both sides, relatively pretty, trotted using our backs and in a frame. At this time I was half frozen and tired, so called it quits but I took the reins and checked how soft we where in the mouth. We weren't a hard mouth pony !!! YAY!!
So after having probably two weeks off Super Kid was AWESOME! It's hopefully going to warm up and we can actually ride!
Show Update
Because Penny Oaks is like the week before I get out of school, we are still contemplating that show, but at this moment we are probably going to IEA show, aka we get to do a jog!!!! This will also be our second rated show, and hopefully we wont almost get eliminated by messing up the dressage test.
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