Returning to the Lunge; or, ‘how do we do this again?’

Well, we haven't lunged in ages. Last time, early in the year, he ran circles around me faster than I wanted. Good thing was he stopped on command (very impressively and abruptly). So today my primary goal was calm paces and all transitions. I have had a lot of time to think about how to slow his feet.

Riding Journal: a polocrosse horse, a lesson given, and cleaning tack.

Surprisingly at canter he is not as balanced as I expected. I can see this when he disunites...Given that this gelding is quite competent at polocrosse his problem won't be balance...As for circles, he has clearly done few that are smaller than 30m diameter, and his turns he copes with by dropping his shoulder into the turn...Impulsion requires strength to support himself on the inside hind.

How to work the paddock-condition horse

First of all I free lunge this horse. The pressure is completely off, short of my directions from the centre and the whip I hold. I trained this horse to attend to body language as well as voice...