Running mummy = Running contacts

Jemma:
She was really good today, OK, it took two attempts at the weaves but then she did the rest of the course really nicely, only knocking one pole when I got in her way!! We then worked on tightening some bits of it up though and tried it again, sadly this time the weaves took us LOTs of attempts!! So then we finished on some weave work, and she is getting better, it is all now down to my timing with the steady and then commanding her to weave too!! Her contacts were all really nice, until the end when she started dawdling down the dog walk for some reason, but her seesaw and a-frame were beautiful all session - fingers crossed she works like this is weekend, but manages the weaves first time too!!

Elliot:
We started on contacts today and he was good when I stopped at the bottom and didn't race him too much (what I will do in competition) but then we started pushing him and I raced alongside the contact and past the end without stopping - this did the trick of increasing his excitement and consequently he ran off the end, he did however not do jumping, just running off!! This meant we could correct him and show him what we wanted and it worked, by the end he was doing nice contacts, clever boy :) We then moved on to weaves and he did twelve really nicely without a jump, but with the jump we cut it down to 10 but he is still struggling with the second gap, we did get one nice one though and then we finished on a little course and then me stopping him before the weaves and then doing them and he did them beautifully - this will be the plan this weekend. We did some see-saws to finish and he did them all very nicely, although I can't guarantee he would in the ring, we shall just see what happens this weekend!!