Fancy Month Six – Day 20
Today we took Fancy out on her last ride in Month 6 into the hills with the snow! She did great and I hope you don
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Fancy – Month Six
Fancy Month Six – Day 19
Today we continued our work with all the things we have taught Fancy and worked on her at the canter again. She was good one way then really fought us on the opposite side. Remember that it takes time to teach the technical stuff and many horses will resist the harder work, we just have
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Fancy Month Six – Day 18
We really worked on getting our soft face before asking her to push her hip in. Fancy was much better today and was even better at the lope too.
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Fancy Month Six – Day 17
We covered all the things we have already been working on and sped it up to a canter. The faster we go the harder it is for both the rider and the horse, so have patience!
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Fancy Month Six – Day 16
Today we worked on taking Fancy into a counter bend circle at a trot. It is a great practice before we go into a canter, then we can do counter canter circles which is necessary for good crisp flying lead changes.
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Fancy Month Six – Day 15
We worked on collection, counter bends, hip in and proceeded into the trot. Fancy is doing well but it takes time to teach them to do each of these maneuvers, so be patient!
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Fancy Month Six – Day 14
Today we showed again how to get our horse up next to the fence to get on. Then we went into our collection and added asking Fancy to bring her hip in as we worked around the arena. We also showed how to get her to push her hip all the way around into a
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Fancy Month Six – Day 13
Today we warmed up with groundwork and collection then went into getting her to move her hip in with her face bent by using the wall then progressed to moving her hip in on the straight stretches. Fancy did great! It is really starting to come together!
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Fancy Month Six – Day 12
Fancy had a couple of days off so we had to work on getting her focus again. Then we continued with our warm up of collection and then into our two track with her face and body going the same way.
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Fancy Month Six – Day 11
Today we continued with our two tracking along the wall, getting her to start bringing her head toward the way we were traveling. We also worked on our transition from a collected walk into a collected trot.
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