A dressage lesson, a trail ride and a right lead canter....it was a good week!
Monday was mild and I took Scout out onto the trail to change his scenery.  He was pushing into my hands, asking very politely to move out. He was just a bunch of energy.  He was just waiting for the okay, and when I let him go he galloped off very nicely....on his right lead!!!  Three separate times he chose the right lead.  Hallelujah!!  We are moving along finally.  I am cautiously optimistic that he will recover 100 percent.

I rode at K's on Tuesday for the first time in two months.  I rode his rehabbed jumper who has turned into quite the dressage horse.  His body and attitude have totally revamped since being in training with K.
 The last time I rode this horse we had our first nice controlled canter after many rides together.  This horse has a spooky streak that may be from from a moron whacking him in the head with a baseball hat whenever he refused a jump in his earlier career.  Instead of whacking him, wouldn't ya think to try and figure out why he's stopping suddenly?  Sore maybe?  Over faced?  sheesh....
Anyway this horse has flourished with K and it shows in his eye especially.  K rode first and showed me his new moves since I last rode him, you can tell K is proud of this little horse.  Piaffe, half passing, tempe changes...oh and he taught him how to Spanish walk and bow just to keep the horse interested.
So I rode. This horse likes more contact than most, we had one spook, that was really mild, I rode thru it and took more contact and he was great the rest of the ride.  I sat a piaffe (incredible feeling) and learned how to half pass and then we had quite a nice canter.  I expect he will sell this horse pretty quickly now. 

Friday was beautiful and I met my friend Stuart for a ride.  He rode his little Nokotah mare and we rode out for 2 hours, coming back at dusk.  I am so glad to have my horse back!