Pet telepathy

It was back to Pet Step this week. Its been a while since I've ridden him and I was really looking forward to it. Pet is such a great horse. Didn't have any of the ususal 'pet-the-pill' problems getting started. He went up the the trot without much effort at all...and a really nice trot after Waco. I was the only one riding tonight so was getting all kinds of extra instruction from other riders. "Isabelle" especially was dropping lots of good hints. The ususal problems came up, closing my hands around the reign, keeping my shoulders back and legs relaxed. Ms. Isabelle, helped me use the half halt to set up my turns and other changes correctly. Pet was more than ready to go to canter. Laura quickly figured out that I was asking way too hard for the canter. So, she had me work at doing a half halt, then 'using my mind' to ask for the canter and finally asking very lightly with the canter aid. Voila! It worked. Now I just have to work on keeping my butt in the sadle.