I do not want to be friends with Cleve Wells. Please stop suggesting that we should become friends. I am concerned however, with the amount of friends we have in common though!
Lucas was much better yesterday, I rode with Slave child, and the Lady who owns the horse that D got hurt on. D came out and helped us all for a bit and we all had a good ride even with 3 horses in our small indoor. Its good that they are finally remembering that working in a group isn't that exciting or bad, because they will have to deal with it at the shows.
I litterly lunged the crap out of Lucas, we figured with all of the mud even if he is going out hes not doing much running or playing. And with the Lady's colt being lunged in the other end of the ring, they both feed of each others energy and tired themselves out even quicker!
And we finally figured out what was going on with out left lead canter! When I ask him to canter my outside leg goes back and my inside leg cues him to take the canter (and not just only push his hip to the inside, as my outside leg is asking). Turns out that because my left leg is stronger (the inside leg) Lucas is taking the cue to take his hip to the outside of the circle which causes me either to get the wrong lead, or for him to be out of whack with his body. So D had me go one handed again in the canter to figure out what my legs were doing and to get off his face and steer with my legs.
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I laughed at your comment about Cleve Wells. :-) Very interesting about your stronger left leg. Great that you have identified what the issue is.
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