Promises

I am working on a post on showmanship and I will add on one for Western pleasure movement... that might be opening a can of worms lol!

I had a great ride tonight on Lucy.  We worked on moving away from my spurs in circles, then working on the spur stop at both the walk and the trot.  We did some roll backs, using the spur stop, and worked on stopping from a trot, turning a 1/2 or full turn then trotting off. 

Then we started loping, we had some miss steps, when I add my inside leg to keep her more upright and slow she was breaking down to a trot.  That isn't a bad thing, she was doing what I asked, but just not exactly right.  We got some really good steps in her bad direction, where she slowed down and kept her shoulders up when I added my inside leg, so I was really happy with that.