Lucy's Turn

Now for Lucy! I’ll start off by saying thoughts of selling Lucy crossed my mind! But only temporarily.

Thursday –

Worked on LFR Stage 1. She’s still pretty pissy when she changes directions so I worked on slowing her down, getting her to relax and work through her turns. That seemed to work well.

Hopped on and did some ORS at the walk. Tried to do that at the trot but she was on crack! Tried to ask for a few canter strides before we finished and she decided bucking was a better option. They weren’t big bucks but I wasn’t thrilled. Granted – it has been a LONG time since she’d be worked last.

Friday –

Did C pattern, LFR stage 1 and she was much better. Did ORS at the w/t but she was on crack again so decided to do the passenger lesson at the trot. She didn’t want to trot but instead wanted to canter (insert crazy smiley here). Decided to quit shutting her down and let her canter. She’d get tired eventually. She finally did and went back to a trot but it was very easy to tell she wasn’t happy about that.

Did some follow the fence at the trot and then a few laps at the canter.

Saturday –
MUCH better! Thoughts of selling are slowly diminishing. Didn’t do much gw, instead got after about 2 min of LFR. Had issues at the same gate gawking at the same ponies that Cat did so did do some rollbacks to get her focus on me. Today she decided she could actually trot. Did the follow the fence exercise at the w/t/c. Clockwise at the canter is her bad direction. She has more trouble staying on that lead.

Sunday –
100% better. Her trot had forward movement, her ears were forward, she was happy! Did a great job w/t/c doing ftf (follow the fence). Also worked on yielding the HQ. Worked on vertical flexion. Going counter clockwise was better then clockwise. That kind of threw me for a loop since cantering she’s the better the opposite direction.

I can say I saw HUGE improvements in both horses. I’m also exhausted! Getting up early to chore/clean stalls really kicked my butt (I’m not a morning person) and actually putting in time I’m not used to………………I was in bed by 8 o’clock last night!

I’m hoping to take them back over next Fri., Sat., Sun. and keep this up for as long as Mona, and DH will let me.