Scropton RDA are raising funds to buy a new horse for their riding centre and as such had advertised a pole work clinic with the proceeds going towards the new pony fund. I seized the opportunity to get Estrid out and about doing something different. I especially don’t want her to think everytime we go in the trailer it’s for long training sessions or long endurance competitions.
Our goal this autumn is to work on our canter so that we can enter a clear round jumping competition. It needs a lot of work from our transition to our rhythm. My positioning is especially poor in canter as I’m so used to standing in the stirrups I really struggle with sitting canter and staying nice and sat up.
Overall Estrid made some excellent progress, her trot has really improved this year and I left with lots of ideas of how to improve our canter transitions and to work on altering our pace and stride length. I love having an objective over winter as it keeps my motivation high.
Beth Endurance 