Monday

Again, on Leporello, I applied my new tool 'using my thigh's backs to propel the horse on.' And again it worked perfectly. I used it in the sitting trot, helping him to get straight and even. There was no time to give him a final workout on the lunge. I will have to start him on the lunge next time. He was not fully pleased when I took him from riding directly to the field, without this customary routine.

Fabian, after Sunday lunge, today much improved in stength. And like last year in start-up, he, after warming, decidedly closed his croup, signaled by several deep caughts and subsequent blowing of his nostrils. It is a premordial gesture, in Fabian's case accompanied by a fart. Thereafter his back was decidedly mouted, he was shorter and broader behind and raised up before me. There was a greater availability and an improved impulsion. He invited me to lean back and activate the Sprungfeder effect of my lower back from L1, leaning my elbows against my sides.

None-the-less, I found out (only when looking at us in the glas door of our pantry), that his neck was tilted to the left; that is, he did not give to the my right ringfinger in setting the neck to the right. I changed my Zügelführung to more left rein and more left hand, to straightenen the neck and bring the nose in an upright position. The setting of the neck to the right we did in a final move from the ground. It took him a while to truly release neck and jaw. The result we shall see tomorrow.

Fallada did very well on the lunge. Her neck now being completely free, as is her jaw. A good cyclical movement in her hind legs. I see her trot and canter in the field, elevated. No time for Secret Taboo, who will go first tomorrow. Nidal still eying me with caution from afar.