Brilliant lesson on Monday. We boxed him over to our instructor's yard to have the lesson.

He was chilled from the start, and after the usual start of showing him the arena and all its scary parts, we started work. We worked on defining the working trot, which is a lot slower paced than I had in my head, but active. So lots of energy, but not so much forward motion. Same applies for the working canter of course. We worked on lowering his head carriage in both paces, he's been locking his neck somewhat.

Then we did some work on medium trot strides across the school. I'd been trying to get too many strides, now the aim is to show some from each of the 3/4 lines.

Towards the end we worked on free walk. We've been getting really bad scores on our free walk, as you can see on every video. Totally understand that more, so hopefully we can look forward to no more 4s!

So a really positive lesson and lots to work on. I'm feeling positive about our next test (Prelim Championships 31st August at Allens Hill), I very much doubt we'll place of course, but I'd like to get a nice score and a bit more positive feedback. :) Next lesson is 8th September, we're having monthly lessons now to save money primarily, but also it gives me time to work on things, and find things I want to work on in the lessons. When I was having weekly/fortnightly lessons I was becoming quite lazy during the week!
Starting my new list of things I want to work on already. Medium canter, halt on the centre line, and maybe some elementary movements if I'm feeling brave. Things like canter to walk transitions, collected canter and trot, I might do a bit of each and try and work it out for myself and see what she thinks.