Lease Ride May 5th 2026

Sindri felt great, it feels like we're finally making progress to get back to where we were before everything happened.

He felt great in our warm-up, he trotted really nicely. He was tight through his neck and back at the start, but he softened through the warm-up. When we warmed up at the canter, he felt really good. He was round through his body and was carrying himself more than he normally does. A lot of times, I end up holding him together, but we’ve been working on getting him to carry himself a bit better.

There was a line of about 6 cones up the centerline of the arena, so we did a lot of leg yielding work with the cones. We trotted through them for the first time, and I realized to cones were set very close together (chai had trouble making it through them at a trot, so you can tell it was quite tight), so we really had to stay together if we wanted to make it through. We did it a couple more times at the trot, and they got better and better each time. We were able to make it through every time.

We cantered through the cones next, doing every other cone because of how tight the spacing was, and he did it so well that we were able to do it again, doing every cone, working on leg yielding over without going too wide and blowing the line. He did it super well, so we ended there and cooled out on the path.