Nicole and Oxy

Canter

Medium Trot

Flying Change

We had our second clinic with Conrad Schumacher.  He was pleased that all of the horses had improved since the last clinic.  The day before the clinic we had a huge thunderstorm which made the ring very wet the first day.  Despite the very cold temperatures and windy weather, the horses were mostly well behaved and we had some great rides.  With Pip, we worked on getting the piaffe more active, and lowering his haunches more.  Conrad was pleased with our canter zig zag, 2 tempis and 1 tempis.  My homework for the next clinic is to get the canter pirouttes more honest.  Anakin was much improved since the last clinic.  He was going more forward, straight to the bit.  We started some flying change work and got some very nice changes.  Nicole had great rides with Oxy, and improved a lot the second day.