Lesson with Karley 8th November

Karley came down for lessons today so I booked a dressage one in with her...we haven't had one for ages so I was really looking forward to it. It was also my first lesson in the dressage saddle so I was keen to see how we were going to go in it.

Cobs was quite good - took a while to relax in his warm up which was annoying as he has been doing so well in schooling. I think because he has been going nicely I put too much pressure on ourselves to prove to Karley that we have been practicing etc.

Someone had set up an arena so we went & worked in there and worked on straightness and then did some leg yeilding in the trot & canter. Our trot work ended up quite nice & we even got some lengthened strides out of him which was good. Our right canter was great and then we just got started on the left canter & he pulled a shoe so that was the end of that! We had been going for more than an hour anyway & both quite shattered LOL!

Have now got lots to work on yet again & she is back next Saturday so fingers crossed there is a big improvement :)

Warming up:



Trot Work Right:



Trot work Left:



Lengthening Stride down 3/4 line:



And Again: