I just got in from riding. Whew, wore me out. I did arena work on Rusty. My son was here and gave me some good pointers on things to work on.
While loping circles Rusty tends to drop his inside shoulder, I was going about correcting it wrong and Charlie told me the right way. Worked like a charm.
Then on barrels, I tried something I learned from that Martha Josey film to keep a horse from shouldering into the barrel, Rusty was bad about that on the second one. I laid old tires by the barrel where he tended to duck in. That helped. And Charlie also corrected me on how to get him set up for the second barrel. I was not releasing my inside rein on the second barrel soon enough and not using my outside leg to drive him over. I was just pulling his head, reining him over, but that made his body arch the wrong way, then he didn't have time to get in postion for the second turn. Probably why he was ducking in. I need lots of practice, there is just so much to remember, and it is all done in split seconds....
But we did accomplish it once real well, and a few times sort of:)
Becky
Sounds like a productive ride indeed... You didn't mention when the pictures got taken though ;~D
We're just about to go outside and work and play a little... I need to go out in the pasture where the sun is and soak that in. It's still chilly here in the shade.