Had a great ride last night, after lunging him I got on and did some 10 meter circles around the ring getting us both bending. We moved right into the rising trot after that, doing about 3 loops in each direction before changing across the diagonal.
We did do some cantering, the first time in a while, which was rough, but I was so happy with his trotting and bending I let it slide a bit. He was a bit weak in his stifles when he came home and was swapping leads behind on the lunge line. I've been working on strengthening him and doing some stretches before we work and its paying off, but I think hes still a bit weak and its showing under saddle. I guess that's what you get when you don't have your horse working from behind all the time...
I had a square set up in the middle of the ring and it was set up so he could take 2 trot strides in between each set of poles. So we had fun trotting though them, walking though them, doing figure eights, and trotting/walking into them turning and going out again. The trail obstacle work is keeping our brains busy longer than just doing the flat work that we normally do.
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