18th Feb 07

Thankfully wasnt raining today!! Another good session on the ground, set up a couple of jumps, and she seemed to be loving these... I never thought I would say it, but we actually need some bigger jumps!!!!

Of course, in our ridden session, there it was again, that drifting left, I managed to stay focused, hold her to the right, and the trick is to ask her forward, and in effect ignore the sideways movement, this seemed to work, and then she resorted to going backwards ;0))) anyway, we got through it, she tried a couple times more, and I sort of won the game, although praps not convincingly, so I rode her up to the other side where she never does the drifting thing and got off there

Popped her bridle on over the halter, and got some great lateral flexion in the new confidence bit - much better than the old one, so am really pleased with that, she seemed to like it, and although I wasnt riding with the halter, she was nice and quiet in the mouth