Today we had a quick ride, but it was amazing! After we warm up, I've started asking Deuce to use his hind end and carry himself a little more. Today I did this by lengthening and shortening his stride at the trot. We lengthen on the long side, and shorten on the short side. He is pretty good at this now because he ends up taking about 14 strides on the short side and only about 16 strides on the long side. He only broke into the canter one time and I think it was my fault for not keeping the rythmn with my seat.
The last thing we did was we jumped over a little crossrail again. :) Last time we jumped he was clumsily making it over the jump. Today he was very forward-going and jumped beautifully! I could tell he had much more scope because I was having trouble staying in jumping position. I'm not a jumper, but Deuce is. :)
I also asked J to take a video of us riding, but the file was too big to email. I will hopefully have a video up here as soon as we get the file off of the camera phone. Happy riding!
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