Gabe and His Work Out on 1/8/08

Well, today we decided to work on the Barrel Pattern. It has rained today and it gets pretty slick in our riding area, so, we spent a lot of time trotting. I used my o-ring snaffle with the copper slow twist mouth along with my german martingale. We worked on flexing, bending and lifting the hip and shoulder. After all of that, we worked on the barrel pattern. We really needed to work on moving over coming off the first, going past the second and going straight to the third along with finishing our turn on the third. After 8 or so rounds on the pattern, he finally made a good go through the barrels. My theory is to always quit them after doing things the right way. We retired for the evening.