Note has been working hard with me this week, if learning to relax can be called hard work. Today some friends got a little video of his ride this afternoon in which he walked and trotted both directions, trotted through a grid of cross rails, and did a little cantering both directions. I was especially pleased with the cantering, we went all the way around the arena with him in a slow and relatively balanced lope without him getting charge-y or hot. Before today we had only managed one side of the arena before he wanted to bolt, but today we went all the way around several times!
It is worth noticing that Note does have a commanding "wild eye" when he first gets started!
Once he is warmed up and he begins to change from the racehorse paddock prance into a slower and longer stride length he actually is quite nice to ride!
After briefly inspecting the cross rail, and with some encouragement from Miles the border collie, Note proceeded to go over all the little jumps in the arena.
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