..."Your pony has a huge walk!" and she totally does so ... to be rating at the walk or we'd have run ... slow, relaxed, non-going-places canter that ring work builds in ... have a canter departure that looks any better than "trot 'em ...-frantic about the situation. Her canter does not have a hell...rough ends. We built four trot-over poles (4' apart) and...poles, they looked to the first jump, they jumped the jump...

Leasing Frosty

...means the lesson is over. Frosty will walk enthusiastically or attempt to trot...ve been working on making him walk into the center the past few...to a leg cue to go forward (walk to trot, trot to canter). 3. Position of...more fine-tuned training. At the canter, he has the opposite problem. ... if I'm sitting the canter. I've been working on ... leasing. This would not be my first lease :] Thanks in advance!

AND AGAIN

... for the entire week. The first search, location of Camelot castle ... same. Merlin kissed hesitantly at first, like he expected Arthur to ... Arthur with him. “I’ll walk with you back, but then ... ambled forwards into a slow trot. “Faster, Bryony,” Arthur hissed, and ... mare worked herself into a canter. Arthur glanced back over his ... Merlin whispered. “Very good.” * The first thing he noticed was the...

Riding

...the weekend, and that was the first time this mare has ever ...of at a gait or a canter. She was almost miraculously better for me Monday night-- probably first of all because I stuck my... then transition down to a walk when I asked. Tuesday was ... time I asked her to walk off from the halt. When ... a little off at the trot (when I finally got him ... could only get maybe three trot steps out of him, and ...

horse show report, way way after the fact

... from a couple bobbles (accidental pirouette canter waaaaaay past the letter for one...even better, if possible, than the first warmup, even in spite of the...like 20 feet away from the first arena, but eh, horses, what ... test goes better than the first. And this horse looooooooooooves to ... pretty much jigged the whole walk portion of the test (one ... test and I love the trot loops. Overall, it could have ...

Brigits_Flame - Oct. Week 2 - "Recovery"

...Thunder took a step forward. The walk around the arena was slow but...laps before Jenny asked for a trot. Amber squeezed her legs, Thunder’s...You mind if we canter though instead of trot? I can’t ...’re not riding Excalibur. His trot is much rougher than Thunder’s... He had stumbled in his first race and injured his right ... hesitation, Thunder slipped into a canter. “Nice transition!” Jenny praised. Amber ...

Shire Horse Society Autumn Show, 2009

... day. 6am start though, all the same! The first class was in-hand geldings. I was entered ... the fact that I couldn't get him to trot up in front of the judge ... it was his first show and he's only a baby so I... compaired to Macey (foreground)! It's official, I walk like a retard. Line-up of Elf and Macey... of honour time and he still won't trot. :P Macey was also leant out to another ...

Shire photos, in-hand and ridden

... day. 6am start though, all the same! The first class was in-hand geldings. I was entered ... the fact that I couldn't get him to trot up in front of the judge ... it was his first show and he's only a baby so I... compaired to Macey (foreground)! It's official, I walk like a retard. Line-up of Elf and Macey... of honour time and he still won't trot. :P Macey was also leant out to another ...

We Have Lift-Off

... most part, we had nice and nice trot. Then we got around to the main exercise...of an issue with staying calm during the canter, since Murphy figured out right off that we...But other than that? Wow. Almost from the first transition, we had wonderful lift off in the canter. I could feel his hindquarters coming in under... few very nice transitions back down to walk. You could still tell his co-ordination ...

Too Cool for School

 Today I had my first riding lesson, met some of the girls.  One girl I met (who assured anyone she could that she was infact a novice, not a beginner like the rest of us) told me that I would be just fine in walk/trot/canter, should i decide to show. She didn't seem the type to be easily impressed, but she did seem the type to hand out excessive compliments - if...