Strikers last couple of weeks

Well I haven't been able to blog for a week or so, so there is a little catching up to do.
Striker has been going extremely well despite a couple of setbacks. For some reason, over the last couple of weeks, he keeps managing to bang his legs around. I have no idea how he is doing it, but almost every day there is a new bit of skin off. Nothing serious but one of his legs has had a little bit of swelling for the last couple of days, although he hasn't been lame. Anyway, over the last couple of weeks I have spent much of the time on the ground with him, going over the yielding and voice cues for the canter. I got back in the saddle with him about 3 days ago and he is so much improved! He now jumps into his canter from a nice slow steady trot and although he does lose it he always makes an effort to pick it back up. He is only losing it because he is not quite strong enough yet to hold it. His trot work is great! He could almost go out in a walk/trot ring now. He is probably working a little low but I am encouraging that at the moment as I want him to build up the strength and reverse the frame from harness racing. I am so pleased with this little horse. He really does try his heart out to please. He is quite introverted but is slowing coming out of himself the more we get to know each other. It will be extremely hard to let him go when the time comes. Will get some more pictures in the next couple of days. The great thing is, he seems to be no longer lame!!!

Now to Envy. I have also gone to the ground with Envy and have yet to get back on, but I will be riding her on Wednesday. I have concentrated on yielding and getting her more forward online as i was finding that very hard on her back. Wednesday will be the day that will tell me whether or not this has worked. Still finding it a little hard to lighten this mares front end. She just goes looking to lean on what ever she can. It is a hard habit to break from a horse that relied on a headcheck for balance.........but we will do it!!! Hopefully my next blog on Envy will go something like this..............................YAY!! Lol.