Kristen Vanderpool Equine

I’m not the most consistent blogger, but here is what we’ve been up to: First update: I've become a Qualified Instructor for Connection...

Yay the time change means more daylight when I go to the barn late! I am so tired of trying to avoid ice and mud in the dark! A...

After the issue the other day I tried to be a bit more flexible this time. Instead of boring Aslan with a bunch of transition circles...

We had a day and a half where no one showed up, so I had to do more groundwork. I taught him some shoulder in. As predicted, I can ask...

For a month we've been working on go and steer - this is usually pretty good, he just doesn't go straight. It's like riding a drunk...

Leg Yielding: Now that Aslan is getting better at the ground cue to go sideways, I decided that it was time to try under saddle. When I...

Now that I've been able to work in the saddle with him, things are progressing nicely. I've had to work harder on "steering" as well as...

The saddle will be here soon, I'm dying to get on and ride again, but I don't have a good enough seat to risk riding in a bareback pad...

I did a lot of riding in November on the bareback pad. We played with cones and going forward and bending. Unfortunately one day he...

Targeting - Aslan pretty much gets this one now. He will touch, follow, and bend his neck to touch the target. He LOVES to touch cones....