sheep in the mares field, sheep in our gelding's field, sheep in the big middle field.... aarrchh... they'll be shearing asap, it seems!
so, to ride..
determined on lots of trot, so that was going really well, lots of him reaching down into the contact in due course and the shadow was showing me a good frame. then walk trot/trot walk transitions, all also going well until i decided to go across the diagonal to the right - happened to be in walk at that moment - when he decided to stop ...
so he ended up doing a lot of steps back interspersed with turns on the forehand...hah! on the grounds that if he doesn't want to go forward he will nonetheless work....
Good approach. Make him work somehow. Sooner or later he's going to figure out stopping is a worthless evasion.
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