I brought Keeva up and groomed her in the run-in while Jay tacked up Elliot.  Keeva stood beautifully and was commenting that the yellow delicious apples that one of my students gave me to share with the horses are delicious. 

We went out to lunge in the pasture and she was delightful on the walk out.  It may be that she is actually starting to enjoy attention.  We lunged and she was perfectly well behaved. 

I then brought her into the indoor and got on and did some basic work in walk trot and canter.  Everything felt pretty solid, even with Jay and Elliot flitting about the arena with that goofy warmblood prance. 

The four of us went out on a hack.  We are trying to get Elliot back to hunting fit after a month off due to a hot nail.  Consequently, our hack, after some walking, was a lot of trot and canter.  Keeva was very good in all gaits.  She followed Elliot’s lead in a bigger trot step, which was really fun.  She started to stretch over her topline too, which is excellent.  When we were in canter work, she was a little bit tighter, but still operating within the acceptable norm.  Jay may have let Elliot canter on a little bit (ahem) so he got ahead, while I required Keeva to keep the pace were were in.  She did pretty well with it.  That is a hard one. 

We had to go past a windmill, which she thought was a little bit scary the first time, but I asked Jay to walk by it a few times with me and Keeva and she figured it out very quickly.  We ended the ride with a cooling out walk around the pasture.  She was very relaxed, walking flat-footed on a long rein.  An excellent day.