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Well, I'm off to a good start. I watched the recording I have of the Martha Josey clinic, then went out and worked on all the differnt exercises she shows. EX. one was making your horse go in straight lines around the arena. Make a box, instead of ovaling the ends. Then when they are doing that well make a nice circle in each corner.

Then another was circling and slowly making your circlings tighter, then easeing back out.

Another is circles, coming in close to the fence stopping by the fence and doing rollbacks towards the fence, then circling off in the other directions, in correct leads.

I could do all of these pretty good.

There were also some exercises with barrels, but I don't really have enough barrels to do most of those.

I spread the pattern out as far as I could in my arena, made one loping run, then went back and worked on our weak areas slowly.

He did very well today. It's funny how doing all those exercises first helps relax me and the horse. I just get lazy about them, because it involves alot of getting on and off, and moving barrels around. Kind of a pain, but it does help, I need to keep that in mind:)

Now on to laundry, housework, and maybe some mowing.

Becky