Yesterday, I had a fantastic lesson on my Trakehner gelding, Samuel Adams ("Sam"). We spent most of the lesson working on getting him to travel freely over his back in a long, low frame to help him build the strong topline necessary for more collected work. He's got an incredible length of stride and tracks up perfectly, stretching down and into my contact to accept my forward aids. (For those of you who are less horse-inclined, "tracking up" means that his hind feet fall in the hoof prints made by his front feet.)

Quote is from Shakespeare, Henry V.

Sam

(Side Note: His poor tail is finally growing out a lot! Much better than last summer when a cow chewed the hair off down to the bone.)