Fancy Pants and a gorgeous day

 Danny and I went to ride at Ashland today! It was such a pretty day. We've been having the BEST SPRING this year! It was a high of like..74 today with no humidity and a lovely breeze but warm sunshine. Ahhhhhhhh.... this is like PERFECT weather! 

 

We took a quick hack to warm up around the small lake and then headed to the dressage arena. Then we did our few minutes of stretchy trot. Then we went to work. We had a great ride. We did our turn on the haunches with the softest touch of my leg. I didn't even have to shock and awe him.. he just did it! Then we did our transitions within the gaits (even at the canter too!). We did some trot to walk to trots and he was okay with them. He got a hair fussy but just going to his shoulder. No tongue. So we backed off and went the other way and then came back to it and did a few more. We also did walk to canter and shallow loop serpentines. We also played with shoulder in at the trot and then trot and canter half passes. He was quite lovely! We did some trot lengthenings and he busted out this massive bouncy one at the end. It was too much, but it was fun. Oh, we also worked on our "piaffy" trot and getting more bounce. It wasn't as good as in our lesson but it was a start. I'm so proud of him for coming back to "work" so gentlemanly.

 

So then we went for a hack. He was kind of lazy and we just moseyed around. We did see some friends across the lake and to Dan's great delight, we met up with them at the cross country field and got to hack back in together. Dan made new friends with Beau. He was even sweet and polite and only chewed on his face very politely. :) 

 

It was a great day! And tomorrow.... XC schooling!! At ashland, but still!