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This is going to be so hard to explain, lol.
Ricci doesn't like to come down to a trot from the canter. I don't know what's going on. She was doing this before, but for a long time we stopped having so many problems with it.
Today, I decided to try and work on simple lead changes in a huge figure-8 pattern. We started with figure-8's at the walk, then the trot to get her used to the changing direction and she was doing beautifully. Then we warmed up a little at the canter.
The problem is this; when I ask her to come down to a trot from the canter, she either, A) does a ridiculously collected, little-strided canter, or B) comes down to a trot for maybe two strides and will pick up the canter again. It makes it pretty impossible to do a simple change because it either turns into a counter-canter, or she will pick up the lead she was on before I give her a cue to pick up the other lead, much less a cue to canter again.
Before anyone can bring it up, her saddle fits, and it's not a physical problem such as pain or overdue teeth. And it's ONLY coming down to the trot that she runs into this. She can do a good canter to walk, and a great canter to halt.
What I had done before is ask for a trot and then drop my reins and post HUGE for about three laps before I could even think about collecting her up again. Any sooner than that and she picked up the canter again.
Any ideas or things I could try to get her over this?
Ricci doesn't like to come down to a trot from the canter. I don't know what's going on. She was doing this before, but for a long time we stopped having so many problems with it.
Today, I decided to try and work on simple lead changes in a huge figure-8 pattern. We started with figure-8's at the walk, then the trot to get her used to the changing direction and she was doing beautifully. Then we warmed up a little at the canter.
The problem is this; when I ask her to come down to a trot from the canter, she either, A) does a ridiculously collected, little-strided canter, or B) comes down to a trot for maybe two strides and will pick up the canter again. It makes it pretty impossible to do a simple change because it either turns into a counter-canter, or she will pick up the lead she was on before I give her a cue to pick up the other lead, much less a cue to canter again.
Before anyone can bring it up, her saddle fits, and it's not a physical problem such as pain or overdue teeth. And it's ONLY coming down to the trot that she runs into this. She can do a good canter to walk, and a great canter to halt.
What I had done before is ask for a trot and then drop my reins and post HUGE for about three laps before I could even think about collecting her up again. Any sooner than that and she picked up the canter again.
Any ideas or things I could try to get her over this?