18th May 2009
Kai was wonderful to warm up today. He only needed one ask to canter, no running into it and having to repeat. Hooray! Then I decided I felt like jumping him cause he was so cool but I made a HUGE mistake. All of a sudden he was at warp speed and ripping my arms off. First we did the 70cm tyres to warm up, fast but not bad. Then I was like, meh lets go through the grid, it was only cross rails but he ran through it like a dick. So we did lots and lots of trot halt trot halt to get him listening, he kept breaking stride into canter, gah. So once he was calmed we tried again but he raced through. So I was like he doesn't wanna do grids today lets see if I can pop him quietly over a few different things and finish up. Bigger mistake. He galloped at everything. We did a million little circles in front of the jumps before we did anything and mum was bored and left. Then went back to trot halts over and over and over until he was engaging and listening. In the end he was so wonderfully light in the bridle and moving nicely forward. Gah!!! Why couldn't he just be like that in the first place, listening! So then I braved it and went through the grid and he was perfect! He strides where perfect and he came back to trot when I asked after! Hooray! So we did a little more of the wonderful trot and i cooled him out. The poor boy got so worked up and was sooooo sweaty. I am going to email a lade tonight about clipping him. So a few pics when mum came out...
Looks ok but he rushed it
Messy legs from galloping it
I was not having a refusal and made him jump it even though he galloped like a moron at it
I thought tighter turns might help but no
I was ready for him this time
Looks better but he still rushed it
Then mum went cause she was sick of watching us circle and circle haha.
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