Mulligan and Me

Due to the fact that Muls and I are doing a cross country day on Sunday I thought we had better book a lesson to brush up on our skills and ascertain our levels of fitness!  Neither of us have done much for a while now and I think the last full hunter trial course I did was on Sadie nearly 5 or even 6 years ago.   So after work on Tuesday we set off to join a couple of others in a group lesson. 

In our warm up we worked on lengthening and shortening the stride, lots of sitting trot and getting horse to work through from behind.  You try sitting trot on a big power striding horse lol :

We did some leg yields and downward transitions and then got jumping.   All a bit low for Muls and he thought yee haaa at most of them and I just felt like a flea on his back but he loved it and least I feel a bit more prepared for Sunday even if we didnt get to do any cross country jumps.

The little ones with the water trays underneath I thought he would back off at but noooo way - will have to go higher now :)

and just to show how much oomph we have going in :

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and final note - the instructor said he was quite fat for a thoroughbred lol - fat!! What cheek ;)