Monday 04 Jul - a new regime

So; today was the start of the new regime.

I was out of the house by 7am, at the yard by 7:20, and had Tartine in from the field and tacked up by 7:30 - thank goodness for clean ponies!

I lunged her in her EquiAmi for 40mins, which included 10 mins warm up and 10 mins cool down.  She was great, and she is showing great abdominal tension (in a good way!) while she is working.

I was finished, and Tartine tucking into breakfast by 8:20.

I then had a sneaky lesson this afternoon, and Tartine was FAB again. We practiced leg yielding in walk, then accuracy on the markers and volte to LY in trot.  Our canter work is improving soon much. Today after practicing the canter transition on both reins from trot, we started practicing the walk-canter transition and Tartine was great. It really did"t take many attempts before we were going straight to canter without a trot stride in-between.

And just to demonstrate how sweet Tartine is, I found her like this this evening

Whoops! But she just stood there waiting for me to rescue her <3

And as another aside, This is why I have a little trouble riding Blitz