Day late and a Dollar short

OR Stride late and a drop in placings.

Dropping the shoulder around a barrel is always a tenuous situation at best. Sometimes you luck out and sometimes things happen very quickly. For the rider to anticipate and go into correction mode before it happens is almost as bad as the horse anticipating the barrel. In the following pictures we went into the barrel ok but on the back side Tenor dropped his shoulder and it was 2 strides before I had him picked up again.

A little late in releasing the outside hand which has left Tenor straight and the left shoulder is dropping.

Starting to pick up the shoulder but alas the time has been lost.   We never went down as his left front came forward my left hand helped by lifting up.

Quick Saying: Never quit riding until you dismount :)

So it is back to the barn to do corrections, on myself as well as the horse.

 Agenda of corrections:

   Horse: loping big circle little circle

   Me: Keep Tenor's inside eye and no outside reign.

          Keep inside reign steady, picking up the inside

             shoulder and use legs for circle size.

          If needed, move outside leg back to help keep Tenor

             rounded.

                                                                                               

Quick saying: Best way for a horse to do their job is get out of their way and let them do it. :)

Hope this is a help for others
   but if you are one of the blogging nit picking english riders that search for goof ups I'm happy for you

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