Cito and the pool

Grassing while we are doing the feet. 

Cito and the water.

Redo for some freestyle.

We did freestyle yesterday in the arena. We played some with corners, every time we pass a corner we do something. Backing up or an indrect rein to change direction. Cito had a hard time following the rail on a long rein, he was like soap and we did more floating around the place. Before we have been riding figure 8 around the trees and some circles to relax and sideways. Today we were ready for stright lines! So everytime he left the rail I just stopped him and swung the shoulders back to the rail. Funny thing was instead of going back to the rail he went the other direction. I added some porcupine with my leg and just waited, he was thinking about it so I gave him time instead of incrase the pressure. When he started to think of the right direction I rewarded him with a cookie. The it went fast and he figured it out. From there everytime he left the rail I just picked up my rein that was resting on his neck and he swung back to the rail. Stopped a couple of times to incrase the rewards. 

We did a lot of trotting and some canter on a circle. 

After our ride we went to the little pool on the play ground. We have just been checking it out before, just put our nose on it and Cito have been a bit skeptical about it.  This time I just waited and gave time, look what happend. So funny!