More work for Mango and a show as well

Well, I have been a little lazy with blogging Mangos training so will do another catch up.

Over the last week or so I have done alot of ground work with Mango as he is struggling to keep up in behind. He looks like a strong horse but is quite weak in behind. When on the lunge, he starts of well in his trot but gets weaker and weaker after I start to canter him. I have been doing alot of yielding HQ's, small circles opening up into big circles and back to small again, back leg stretches and he has had 2 bowens. Interestingly tho, is that he is the type of horse that even at rest is stamping his hind feet and constantly swishing his tail. I have been getting the feeling that he feels "pinchy" in behind. I know that doesn't quite make sense, but it is the only way I can describe it. After the bowen I gave him last night, the stamping stopped and the tail settled so will be interesting to see what happens. I will give him a couple of days before I do anything with him again. He went to his first show on the 20th and did really well. He looked a million dollars and was so well behaved. He won Champion Standardbred gelding and Champion open hunter horse gelding. Fantastic results for his first show! I was really pleased with him.