In this session, Ali looks at how Nancy has been getting on with groundwork with Posh and then works on walk and rising trot in ridden work.

Ali gets Nancy to stop shoving with her seat and reduce the movement in her seat bones to shorten Posh's length of stride in walk. This begins to get Posh reaching into the reins and helps him to find his balance. It also helps him to engage his core and lift his back.

Ali explains the rising trot trot mechanism to Nancy and Nancy puts this into practice. Posh likes to throw Nancy up in trot so she focuses on moving forward not up. Nancy also needs to think of doing a smaller rise to control Posh's length of stride and get a nice working trot.