Mr. Leroy

This week was pretty draining, due to work stuff flying around. I was all ready this morning to have a relaxing riding lesson (I ride every Saturday), but when I get to the barn, I see that I've got to ride Leroy. Leroy is a sweetie, but he's also got some gaited blood in him. This means that he has the wierdest shuffle-trot as his default speed, and that he's pretty unbalanced on turns and tight circles. He's usually a workout. And today, of all days, we were working on turn on the haunches and 15 meter circles. But you know what? We did it. I had some pretty sketchy turns (especially going to the left), and my first couple of circles were more like eggs/ovals, but I kept him moving forward and he started bending for me. It was the smoothest ride I've had on him for months. And he did a beautiful free walk for me.