Rode Dru finally. Had a great lesson Fri, I think riding other people's horses made me have higher expectations for him, and made me more solid on him. When I showed him I was in charge, he barley threw his butt around. He listened much better, and respected me. We did leg yielding, and other things that I can't remember. It was way better than it had been the last time I rode him. Very happy!
Yesterday I rode again. At first I just got on him, figuring K had ridden him that weekend so he would be okay. Nope, he was so hyper, I got off and lunged him and let him get all of his bucks out. When I got back on it took him a little bit, but I got him to the point of where we were before he was lame. Then of course, he had to go back to his i'm going to back up and hop up and down and not move. So I hopped off and chased him around a bit. When I got back on he threw a few bucks, they were kind of funny because he wasn't getting anywhere but didn't want to give up. Finally at the end his head went down and he was relaxed, his tail was swishing, his back was rounded and he was moving fluidly. Canter work was really nice, I didn't want to stop. We did walk to canters and a stretchy canter and trot. Really, really nice. We did a test at the end and it was great because it was training one on steroids. R had a stubborn little pony who liked to stop randomly, look around and try to come find Dru. We practiced our halts in the middle of the test, and did some walk to canters so we could actually finish the test, along with some leg yielding to dodge the naughty pony. Overall, it was a good ride :)