Thursday, February 4, 2010

Another go

Tonight I set up seven cones for Sarah to negotiate.  Again, Sarah was ready to work right off the bat.  She did not want to warm up on the longe-line.  She has been so down to business!  No fooling around.  Four of the cones were spaced four "human- strides" apart.  We worked on weaving through the cones, both at a walk and a trot.  This went very well, considering the work that we did yesterday.  Sarah remembered all of that work, and applied it to tonight's tasks.  This made weaving through the cones easy.  Her jog-trot was nice, slow and steady.  She was well collected and was lifting through the withers.  We also worked on moving diagonally through two sets of cones, both at the walk and the jog.  I had to use my leg in a slightly more rear-ward position to make the diagonals to the left; once doing that, everything fell into place.  The last thing that we worked on was backing through several cones set up in a triangle.  It has been awhile since we have done this, so it was good practice.  We will do more of this in the near future.
Cubes and peppermints, and we were good to go!

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