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Pick Apart

Pick Apart

This is one of those posts that aren’t super exciting, but are written for me to have in the anthology that is Simon’s training.  At least there are pretty pictures for y’all? After about a week off from the September Austin monsoon, I was able to head to the barn Sunday morning to hack my lively horse.  Fresh Simon is never really a bad thing.  He’s not one to be naughty and buck after time off, but lively Simon is…

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Working On Our Trot Trot

Working On Our Trot Trot

I’ve been trying to push our flatwork up to the next level for a few reasons.  First, let me give you a brief synopsis of how I usually hack my horse. Wow you’re lazy today.  Well, lazy means I’m not getting run away with!  I can do lazy… I’ll call it “long and low”.  Well we’ve done a few laps now, I should do circles or leg yields or something.  That was moderately successful.  Those hard hard.  Let’s canter!  Two…

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