I'm starting to get a couple steps of collected canter. Nic's better able to hold it to the right, but to the left, it's still pretty spotty. She can even do a couple steps of working pirouette to the right, but I'm not even going to attempt it to the left. She isn't in enough self-carriage to the left to worry about working pirouettes.
Flying changes, blech. She's doing them okay, I guess normal. Normal meaning she understands the concept, and can do them around the arena, but gets stressed easily about them still. So she misses about every other one because she loses throughness.
I'm thinking about putting her back on Adequan because I think some of the stress is normal learning-the-lead-changes stress, but I think there's a layer of geez-I'm-coming-14-what-do-you-want-from-me stress. I think Adequan works, but I will have to try it again to see if it will do anything for the mare.
