He was easy to catch in the paddock. He peed in the stall while Jill collected the tack, but then was still antsy in the cross ties, so she knew he was feeling his increased grain ration...
and Jill decided not to go out on the roads all by herself right away. She put on the spurs and started on dressage work. He was moving well, but kept spooking. Even after a half hour of hard work, including long canters to work off the excess beans, she couldn't really grab his mind, despite the fact that his body was engaged.
She decided to take him out and really burn the energy.
They trotted up Kennedy road to the bridge (1.5km) and then back. Really forward moving, with a steady tempo up and down the hills in trot. It had just rained so the gravel was really soft.
Then they went back into the arena for more work. His canter work in there was good and they did tree sets of canter walk, walk canter each rein and then called it a day.
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