Loping

Thursday in class, we started working on loping. Rose's lope is very fast and it feels like her rear end is connected to a rocket. It feels that she is a little more unbalanced It was hard to lope with her because she wanted to either bite the horse in front of her or kick the horse beside or behind her. She did well at walking and trotting, I was able to keep a loose rein circling both ways with other horses during class. I worked with her on Saturday morning. She decided to get some frustations out by bucking, biting, and crow-hopping before breaking into the lope, which is a three beat gait also known as a canter in english riding terminology. At the end of the session I can't say we were loping perfect circles, but some barriers were broken down. Rose is also starting to sidepass and move off her front and rear end. I have a week and half to the final where we have to do some ground work, and the an riding portion that includes a walking, trotting, loping, backing up, and yielding front and rear.