I've been riding Riley consistently for 3 weeks now. Rode him today, circles, circles, circles are our best friend, oh and serpentines too. The kicking out is over finally. He's starting to move forward willingly now, about time!

Also worked on showmanship, he's starting to get backing up, and setting. He sucks at stopping when I stop, but we're working on that. He's starting to get a pivot but he pivots on his left foot instead of his right, anyone have any clue how I can fix it? He's planting the left foot pretty nicely and crosses over in the front well. He's the first horse I'm teaching to do showmanship so I have no clue how to fix it.

There's two shows in May that I'm hoping to get Riley too, just for the walk/trot classes. I'm not completely sure if that's possible, but the way we're heading it's not to far out of reach.