Well the beastly little dogs (i love them really ...) knocked my hand rather hard this morning as I was getting them into the car to go to the yard so by the time I got there it was really sore, and as there was noone else on the yard I decided it probably wasn't an overly safe idea to ride!
So I lunged him over raised poles. He really seems to enjoy this. Variety and all that. We started off with the poles a comfortable distance appart, maybe a little short. And he found that so easy that after a few goes I pulled them appart a bit and made him stretch. I love watching how he uses himself now doing this sort of thing. He's so fluid.
I then put up a small jump. Not really much higher than the raised poles, but it did have scary blocks on either side of it. This meant that is required a HUGE leap to get over it. So I sent him round a few times till it wasn't and issue and he was trotting over it like the raised poles. So then it went up to the next side of the block, about 1 foot I think. This of course was terrifying and lead to a couple more huge leaps. But then he went back to trotting over it. He seems to find trotting over them so easy that I just had to see what would happen if it went up to 2 foot. Well it was no longer terrifying but definitely needed a jump. I didn't want to over do it with the jumping as he's not done very much and was such a good boy so we left it at that and went back over the poles a little. I wish there'd been someone to take photos as he looked great and was enjoying it so much.
But I did take some pics before working him as I think he's finally begining to put on some weight. But I also think he's going upwards as well. I tried to take simillar ones to ones I've done before. It does have to be said he was a far from willing model. He simply didn't see the point in being brought in from the field to do nothing.
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