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Cooper & Lesson 16
Lesson 16 was moved to Oct 23 at 10 a.m. and had my second fall off of Cooper.
We did posting trot on long side, whoa and back up when going too fast, slow jog on short side and add in circles at corners.
She helped me with trying to get his head lower and lengthen the rein. She told me I have to trust him more and now she is going to push me more because she can see I can do it. We learned to keep them on the circle and not vear off to the left or right. Use the outside rein to keep his shoulder from going out and inside rein just slightly in, not too much bend. Pull both reins to get his head down and then release with lots of slack in the rein. I can work mostly with the reins as my legs don't work right. Gail had to keep telling me to sit back, I was leaning forward. Great lesson then she suggested we tag along on a trail.
Cooper spooked after going through the apple orchard paddock and into the trail part. I don't know if another horse in the field scared him or what but I felt him tense and tried to keep his head down and turned towards the other horses. I landed in the mud, it was a soft landing. Cooper took off and Jane & Gail caught him.