Today was a day to celebrate, we got to canter for the first
time since early December. My friend
Agneta gave me some bling-y bandage fasteners for Christmas, so in honor of
cantering for the first time since Cooper got sick, I put them on. I have been gradually adding more trot to
Cooper’s daily work and today I decided to try a little canter. He felt great! We just went once around the arena in each
direction.
Trot exercises: Warm up with some leg yields, then we start trotting some of the same exercises I did at the walk
Half pass away from the track for a couple of strides then
leg yield back to the track.
Shoulder-in change to haunches-in
Shoulder-in to renvers.
And, of course, we have started the shortening and lengthening of
stride in the trot, just asking for a couple of steps longer, then a couple
shorter. Making sure the rhythm stays
the same in both the longer & shorter strides.
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