Tuesday, August 21, 2007

8/20/07 Ride...


Well, Final is continuing to recover from his injury. We did some walk, trot and canter last night. We're re-working the idea of him carrying himself because he's gone right back to trying to pull me along. We did so much work over the last year, getting him to really carry himself and he has become so much fun to ride, and in just one month, it's all gone back to the way it was before, the heavy pulling way. Arrrggggghhhhh. So we concentrated on him moving foward from behind and a lot of yielding of his hind end and the walk mostly, because I don't want to push it too much. I want to make sure he's really healed before I push. What I really want and need to do is a lot of yielding and going forward at the trot. Hopefully in the next few days I'll be able to do more of that.

He get's his acupunture treatment this afternoon. Hopefully that will help loosen his injured area, and the rest of his body for that matter. :)

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Bronze Medal

I'm proud to say that Final has helped me earn my Bronze Medal from USDF. My beloved Yochi got the scores we needed at First Level, and Final helped me get the scores needed at Second and Third Levels. I'm pretty proud of my boys! They've taught me so much.

Up next, Silver Medal.