It was a scary mirror day yesterday. One of the mirrors has broken in the arena and Dru was not enjoying that. There was also a new trainee in there with me, who was more scared than Dru, so he was following Dru... a bad combination. I tried to do lots of leg yielding, squares, circles, stopping randomly to keep his attention on me. He was pretty relaxed by the end.
My out side reign problem persists, it's gotten a lot better on the right, but I am right handed so that probably helps, but the left I still feel isn't great. My friend had bought me a bucking strap for long lining Chessie, but I can't find it now! I'm kinda mad about that because it would be helpful to have something to make sure my hand can stay steady. Hopefully I'll find that.
My rides have been pretty short the past few days, I do my warm up and then just don't know what else to do. I practice a test, the just take him down the drive way. He's gotten way better about that.