Week 7 for Liryk and Edge's Running Contacts

Week 7..... WOW I can't believe it! 7 weeks ago it felt like I'd never reach this point with Liryk and now we're here I look back and it feels like it's flown by!!

We're now at the point where it feels like we're getting somewhere :-D

No more horrid halti!! That's been replaced with her favourite harness, because low and behold we want to encourage her to pull, so that she's giving her hamstrings a workout. This is great news for Liryk as anyone that knows her, knows pulling is pretty much her specialty!! :-)

There were great results from her second ultrasound last week, showing the initial torn area had reduced in size by 2/3rds, with no scare tissue evident and leaving an area of just 6mm by 3mm left to heal. This has meant that restrained recalls and recalls up hills have been added to the regime. And ......OMG...... sooooooo excited about this next bit!!!!!! This week she has been allowed to start jumping a straight line of jumps on 300 height :-D wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! not sure who's grin is bigger Liryk's or mine :-D

The other exciting news that has come out of Liryk's rehab, is that I've been focusing some more on Edge's running contacts :-D I'm really happy with how they look at the moment and I'm going to say I think I like his better than Liryk's at this point. This video was taken a couple of weeks ago. The first one is a bit high for my liking but all the others I LOVE!!!

I've also started him back on turns. We had a break for a few months as I really felt he wasn't mentally ready. We're just on the flat at the moment, but it seems just giving him that break has really helped and we've progressed another step :-) My plan at this point is to keep the d/w at this height until I've worked his turns on the d/w to the same point and move up from there...... though it is just a plan and knowing how much I detested turns with Liryk I'm going to leave that flexible :-P