Tuesday's Ride!!

I got to ride today. Since I didn't yesterday it made me want to ride all the more. I rode for 40 minutes!! Not quite an hour but we are still working up to that. Anyway we first rode around the big yard to warm up. I did some backing, stopping, and moving Navajo's forquarters!! Then we headed down the strip. We did a lot of trotting down along the bottom of the strip. We also put in two canters while down there. I thought that was pretty awesome. We did some serpentines at a walk as well. I tried them at a trot..that will need work but it went well. We were down there for a good 25 minutes. Then we headed back. We cantered/galloped the whole way back to the big yard. I walked around the big yard a little and then I was like we are going to head back down. It only took 5 minutes to persuade him and ride down the strip. We did trot a bit on the way down. To me that was a big accomplishment because usually it takes so long to persuade him to go down the strip again and then trot yet makes it an even bigger accomplishment!!

Well we headed back after we accomplished riding down. I then got off and walked him across the stones then got on again. We rode out back for about ten minutes then I came back to the barn. I groomed him good and loved on him. I was so proud of how good the ride went. He did good with leg aides and with responding to me right away!! So it was a wonderful ride and I am so happy about it!!