Wow, yesterday might have been a storm, but it was still pretty warm. Today its turned around and there is what a southerly! There is more snow on the mountains than I've seen, its freezing and windy, when that hits you you know that you're alive - the horses are all feeling it!

So again, I lunged Giant before getting on, he went off! Had a good buck when that wind hit him, then settled so I jumped on, just lunged him to let him get that back out, we both knew he needed it :P. Did our usual warm up of just moving forward at w/t/c encouraging him to stretch out, he is getting it now, I just have to be careful that he doesn't curl up, getting him to stretch forwards is the hard part, he wants to come back at you.

Really pleased with his canter today, he remembered what we did last time really well, slowed his canter right down on a smaller circle, he was much lighter infront, not relying on me so much and he waited for me then dropped into walk when I asked, although he did few have a few walk strides, but thats fine, canter to walk is hard and he knew what I wanted just rom doing it a couple of times last ride.

Took his canter out on lots of different shapes, large around the paddock, circles, loops and counter canter. He is feeling so much more balanced and strong, he still needs some help to keep it at times, but he is doing all that well. Just today he was a bit funny picking up the left lead canter, he got it wrong quite a few times which he doesn't normally do.

Gave Harry the same warm up as Giant, he was a little bit stiff and tense in the cold, we just took our time and he came really nice. Really nice shoulder in in walk, now working on trot shoulder in which he finds harder, so just asking for flexion with a shallow angle, keeping the trot really slow, which in itself is hard for him to keep a proper trot rhythm, but hes trying hard.

Popped into canter on the left (the good one) lead, and did a few trans up and down from it encouraging him to stretch at trot afterwards so that he relaxes, and he was much better at it, he was looking for the stretch straight away.

On the right lead now he just needs that time to sort himself out, then he gets it right, hes really tying, thinking a lot more and not getting wound up. He was good, looking for his stretch on this rein too, but still showing a bit of tension by falling onto the inside shoulder and flexingto the outside. If I just give him a walk for a mo hes much better.