Multitasking today getting a video of Emus while giving a lesson. We have mostly been focusing on trail riding with her the last 30 days getting her exposed and going out alone and In a group she’s lazy and dull but has gotten so much better at staying forward and moving out.
Kato
Katos first trail ride was today. He’s walking trotting and loping circles in the arena really well so we figured today was a good day to get him out on the trails. He was a champ Morgan said he even led some of the ride. Laura was riding Easton and captured some shots of Katos first trail ride!
Kato loping for the first time
Katos first time loping. We just let them fall into it and lope for as long as they want to lope the first couple times. Our goal is they stay relaxed and quiet and make it as good of an experience as possible while still staying balanced and picking up the correct leads. Morgan has had some great rides on Kato this week. Happy 4th everyone!
Mack progress video
Mack was previously “started under saddle” last summer lightly. she came may 4th for 30 days of training we spent the first week working through a lot of attitude and learning to be pushed despite her thinking other wise. We have worked alot on how to properly give to pressure with the bit and how to move her body off your legs correctly and getting her off her forehand and moving forward and balanced correctly. She still wants to revert back to slamming into the bit at the stop at times but thats getting better. She gives me little to no attitude now and usually enjoys learning what im asking her to do that day. Still has times where she falls back on old habits but is easily corrected. She loped for the first time about 5 rides ago and that is coming along and getting better with each ride.
Aspen
Miss Aspen and I bucked the wind and went out for a solo cruise today!
Trail rides
It was a beautiful day yesterday and we got Aspen, Rico, Mack’s, and Ruby out on the trails. They all did fantastic
Ryder
Ryder is in for some work on his lope transition, critiquing his backing, pivoting etc. progress report almost through week 1
Holly
Holly is about 50 days into her training/restart. She’s starting to figure things out now that we have found a bit that she tolerates.
When it takes you 2.5 hours to work through an obstacle 😅 and still only have the beginner stages of the tire accomplished 🤦🏻♀️ Romeo man it’s not really that hard.
Rico progress
Rico almost 3 weeks into his start under saddle. He’s still figuring out how to stay “in the bridle” I just started asking him to do that this week. He figured out quickly how to move off my leg and has an easier time staying more balanced on his own than most which helped him get a little farther faster than the average start.
Holly
Holly update- I finally found a bit that I think she tolerates. She’s putting together the pieces some of the leg ques are still sticky but I think now that we have a bit she isn’t so distracted with she will start putting the building blocks together with the foundation we have created. She’s figured out legs fanning means engage hindquarters lift back and drop neck which also translates into the back up cuz the ques are the same my body just shifts different. It’s coming together and hopefully progress will be quickly made now that she has the idea of it all.
Kade 60 days of training
Kade is just finishing his 60 days of getting started under saddle. Hes finished out of my program strong and im confident he has the start of all the tools he will need to be successful in whatever career path he goes down. Hes been super fun to work with. He has a solid walk trot and lope. He will two track,sidepass, pivot, slow down off your seat, turn off your body,stop off your seat and he’s starting to back up completely off your leg. The collection is coming as he’s getting stronger and figuring out how to stay balanced more on his own. He will shoulder out off your legs at the trot at lope and getting more broke of responsive to your body and legs with every ride, he’s great on the trails will lead or follow and rides through any obstacle you point him at.
Aspen
Aspen is back for more training. Shes a sassy little thing but once she gets back into our groove and figures out it’s easier to work for me than fight me shes such a cool little horse to ride!
Rico
Working on building Rico’s confidence and respect. If you don’t want to watch 6 minutes of a sped up 10 minute video working through obstacle refusal keep scrolling. I put Rico on the obstacles today we always start with the easier ones first Rico made it through the logs fine and worked through the ditch and then we came to the mattress and he was not feeling that brave. With a lot of pressure and release at the correct time he eventually found his way over it but here’s the video of working him through the mattress refusal.
Jesse
Jesse’s obstacle groundwork, he’s such a cool sensetive/responsive dude he reads so much off your body language if you are consistent enough you don’t need aids or whips for him one day he would be good enough and cool enough to send through at liberty and I really don’t think that’s really that far away in his future. Still working through a little of that fear with quick human movements but he’s absolutely improving
