The round pen has fairly deep sandy footing. That’s why Sue canters in there so well.
Sue doesn’t canter in the arena with me riding. Oh maybe a step or two now and then when I have a pole for her to lift up her front end.
When I ride her, she is still nervous when I put pressure on her to go faster. If we are trotting and I put pressure on her to go faster, we disintegrate. (Sue does a lot of disintegrating.) Occasionally I’ll get a couple of canter steps and then we disintegrate into every foot doing something different.
I”ll have to take a mounting stool and go into the round pen. We must canter.
Today she was cantering in the round pen with the three beat canter. From my middle point, I raised up my stick in front of her and she did a sliding stop.
Yes, really. I couldn’t believe it either. We tried the other direction and she has a nice stop. It’s only to the left that she has a sliding stop.
I am still marveling. It must mean she is putting that weight back on her rear end and cantering.
Ok, that’s it. I must ride in the round pen. I hate the mounting stool. I hate having the mounting stool being in the round pen when I’m running around. It diverts my attention. I do have my little peculiar oddities. I’m not perfect.