Owing to some brief but intense rain, Wednesday was definitely in indoor day. Today was also a tack change day. I've toyed with the idea of using a figure 8 noseband on the princess and finally got it cleaned/oiled up enough to use. I am hoping that it'll provide a little more stability to the bit, as that might be a factor in her fussiness with contact. Her owners have also discussed trying out a running martingale on her, as she does get into a bit of a headtossing habit, particularly when jumping. I'm hoping that the martingale will give her a little reminder not to stick her head in my lap. In case it presented any problems, though, I wanted to test it out on a non-jumping day.
The rain was pretty loud on the arena roof but she barely noticed. It's the little things that make me realize she's really been mislabeled as a crazypants; she just needed a little faith I guess. We did plenty of circles/ turns, gathering/loosening of the contact, etc. at the walk to get her accustomed to the new garb
Then we started out trotting on a longer rein and picked up the contact as we went along.
Canter was a bit exciting but nothing goofy. I experimented again with giving her a looser rein, then gathering it up and vice versa and she seemed to take it in stride.
Walk break, reverse, more walk and trot to break up the pattern,
then canter the other direction
Then some more walk/trot transitions, a trot on a loose rein, walked out and gave her a good grooming.
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