Objective: learn diagonals at the trot, improving two-point position
at teh walk and trot, trotting over poles, steering in two-point position
- Brush/tack up horses English
- Start, stop, back, and halt again at each letter - improves stopping and starting skills
- Walk over poles
- Weave through cones in a straight line
- Stop in center of arena
- Stretches/mounted exercises
- Walk on rail in two-point position, maintain all the way around the arena
- Two-point over poles
- Two-point while steering horse through cones
- Slow posting trot around the arena, on the rail
- Sitting trot halfway around the arena
- Walk into center of arena and halt
- Explain diagonals, at the trot
- Walk on rail, counting 1-2, 1-2, 1-2 steps at teh walk, watching the horse's shoulders
- Posting trot, counting 1-2, 1-2, 1-2 steps at the trot
- Walk horses
- Explain how the up/down motion applies to outside shoulder
- Posting trot around arena to practice picking up on the diagonals
- Walk horses to cool down
- Dismount/untack/put horses away
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