Juniors, Lecture #2, and Ropes 7/19

So yesterday was really fun. I had Maverick #70 for Juniors. The old man shocked me. He is great with spurs. While we were riding down I noticed his walk felt weird and he was limping a little bit. He was just stiff and when we got down I circled him a little and he got much better. His trot is so nice!!! We practiced on equitation so that was awesome. He doesn't like to lead though so there has to be another horse in front of him. So when we got to cones I thought he wouldn't leave the herd. But then he charged the cones. It was awesome. He changed leads so nice. Had a hard time with stopping him probably cause he is older. Then we worked on lead changes a little. He would switch in the middle but not when he was on the rail. Then we made a circle and Mr. Keller came and gave the Interclub trophy. He watched the whole class. Ahhhh! Our lecture went really well and we got a lot done on the study guide. Ropes was good. It was soooooo hot though. Danielle took the red ropes and red division girls on white to the volunteer to practice for heritage show. So the rests of us just worked on specialties with the other instructor. I am getting so good at double spoke hop. It is really coming along. Then my friend and I are nailing tandem spoke hop. We may even be able to preform it for Olympics. I am also working on drag hop. Bird in a cage is still giving me fits. I am gonna try a different sized rope and see if that helps. I have butterfly reach thru and double butterfly. Once I master bird in a cage tandem spoke hop and drag hop I can start new tricks. I have basically the whole list mastered. Yay!!!! Then we did 5 toe dances to leave and that was it!!!!