FLATWORK LESSON - Saturday 8th May

This morning we took Lucy up to Forest Gate Farm in Norley to have a flatwork lesson with my instructor, Jane Carruthers. I have been having lessons from Jane since I got Lucy and she has improved our flatwork no end over the last few months. Jane is a fantastic teacher as she is very patient and encouraging. I have a lot to thank her for, as she has built my confidence and helped me to believe in myself and my ability to get the best from Lucy.

Lucy worked brilliantly today in the lesson, we worked on getting her to listen to me by doing lots of transitions, walk to canter, canter to halt etc, this was to get her to react to my aids immediately. We also worked on some circles as I have a habit of doing my circles too square in dressage tests, so Jane really got me to do a correct circle and get Lucy bending the right way. We worked for an hour and 20 minutes today, I was quite tired at the end (must get fitter!) Lucy, however, was absolutely fine!

She did some lovely work today and I am very pleased with her, we just need to brush up on a few things and hopefully we will begin to get better marks in our Dressage.

We have our next lesson booked on Sunday 30th May, just a week before our next BE event at Brand Hall, to practice the Dressage test for the Event.