I am sure that Ace will have other boisterous days, but our work on discipline and submission is really paying off now. Today he didn't buck at all and hardly even spoooked,. He took the occasional look at a letter or the barrels but compard to previous mad moments it was nothing. He did a really good session of some good work, not briliant but very acceptable. Transitions all right on the button, shoulder in and travers. The biggest "problem" was medium trot, where he was trying to canter, but compared to Jazz it is a piece of cake to bring him back to trot and ask again for the lengthening and he really tried. He did at one point step off the arena towads the stables (there is no gate) but he was uncharacteristically easy to turn back and put back onto the arena to finish our work.
I am very happy with how he has progressed. I know he will be worse tomorrrow, or the day after, but the picutre taken as a whole is a consistently upward path at a considerable rate of progression.
Radar also schooled today, well for him, and we are hoping to get out to the "Autumn hunting" of the pack that we used to go with . I don't know what it will be like, it is a meet with hounds but no plaiting and hacking jackets not hunt coats. I have no idea how much we will get to jump or how long we will be out for, but it will be better than sitting at home looking out of the window I hope.
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Hopefully, your determination to make him work will continue to pay off. What we can hope for are more days in a row where he settles down and works right from the start. Sounds like a good start.
ReplyDeleteGood for Radar too. The outing will make him happy, regardless. Maybe starting out on the more conservative side will help you test out his new schooling under less exciting conditions than a full out formal hunt.