Monday, January 2, 2012

Happy New Year

California has been experiencing some very mild weather and we've been fortunate to ride not only Christmas Weekend, but New Year's Weekend as well.  The horses are doing very well.  We took some cones out to the Airpark field and worked on a number of exercises.  These cones were under ten bucks and they are easy to carry.  We can set them up in a flash and they let us do all kinds of exercises with them.   They act as our trees if we are bending.  At the trot we can two-track to weave in between them and at the lope they work well to help us keep a decent circle.

Here are a few photos from the rides:




Ranae loping at the Airpark field.

Ranae and Dusty practising their Steeplechase
Jessie the side-passing monster
Doing circles around our "tree"
Practising our lope-over skills
Hope you are getting to ride!

1 comment:

Leslie said...

you all are lookin so good riding! looks like a good place to ride and do some different exercises and looks like fun!

I saw your post on my blog and it reminded me to add my *edited draft* of my horse related goal...not sure how I could forget that, anyways, it's for our riding and training more and possibly being brave to try out the different gymkhanas that are close to our house :)

Happy New Years to you and Ranae, if you two ever come out to AZ, let us know!