Deuce got a new shoe today. I kept looking all week for his thrown shoe but could not find it. My farrier came and made a new shoe and nailed in on for free though! The funny thing was that as soon as my farrier left, the barn manager came to my stall and gave me a shoe they found in the arena. Of course it was his....haha.
Anyway, after he had his shoe back, we went for a ride and he was really good! He was very responsive to my leg and light in my hands. I made sure in my warm up that I did a lot of serpentines, leg yields, circles and lengthenings. Very few straight lines. I did walk trot canter both directions then I worked on counter canter in both directions. Deuce picked up counter canter pretty easily - I just had to encourage him to keep the correct bend.
After he did counter canter we practiced some shoulder-in for the first time. I have trouble feeling if the shoulder-in is at the right angle and bend but I think he was doing some good shoulder-in steps. I just did it playfully and wasn't trying to force him because he had already done counter canter so nicely.
Tommorow I'm going to maybe do some cavaletti and jump over some stuff. Maybe I'll do the two circles and flying changes like J had me do last weekend. Should be fun. :) One thing I should be mindful of is that he was still sucking back a little before the canter depart. L told me this is just him saying no to my leg so I need to get after him for that. He's strong enough to do nice canter transition but I think he is just reluctant to do them.
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