Restarting Maya in the bosal has been amazing. Without the pain response of a snaffle to cover up the holes, we’ve been able to start slowly filling them in. Working on staying in tune with my energy, seat, and legs.
Today was a beautiful fall Monday! 🍂☀️I worked with Vega on some refinement and a few things I learned at Equine Affaire over the weekend. Looks a little boring because it’s mostly at a walk but we did some really cool stuff:Me being more aware of my seat and balance and her and I’s balance in relation to that. Narrowing up my “bridle box”, along with more neck rein cues. Combination yeilds: shoulder and hind. Starting some counter bends, shoulders in, and haunches in *without overbending*. Working on our stop and back with seat. All of this is tried to be done with quality and lightness, suppleness throughout her poll and in a halter in preparation for her custom made bosal that’s coming in soon! Hard to believe she’s got less than a year under saddle, and was wild and untouched a year ago. She’s my heart and soul. ♥️♥️♥️
I introduce new horses to my herd individually at first so they can work it out. Dream and Maya did wonderful the other day as Maya is low on the pecking order and is pretty unflappable. So it was easy.
Vega on the other hand is a boss mare, and sure makes it known.
Dream started this. She made the mistake of trying to step up to Vega. If she had moved away or didn’t kick back when Vega first gave her signs to get out of her space, Vega would have been less harsh to asserting her role as herd leader afterwards.
This is exactly as it would have played out in the wild, however I stepped in after and reminded Vega that when I am in there I am the boss and not her.
But they worked it out and were chilling in there fine together.
It was actually good, and played out exactly as I hoped. Vega did her job well and after Dream kept coming up to hang with me and get relief.
Kind of a “Good cop, Bad cop” game. 😉
✨Dream haltering-full first session!✨
Excuse the huge glob of sunscreen on my forehead, horse training isn’t for the vain lol.
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I only fit with quality trees, and work with companies and saddle makers that will make a saddle to last you and your horse a lifetime.
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Come for a little Springtime property trail ride with Nova and I!
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Vega, liberty and recall work!
Little raw and uncut version of Vega and I practicing our liberty circle, side passing, and whistle recall today!
She prefers ridden work over this, so I always do a little groundwork and/or liberty and release her to the under saddle work. She’s such a smart, fun, and (as I’ve said before) opinionated mare. 😂♥️
I just love spending time with her and I know she feels the same. Her ears is just her “deep in concentration” face.
Haven’t done any groundwork with Maya in like two weeks.
I expected more sassy and energy out of her.
This is a bit raw and uncut of how I use the roundpen at liberty get a horse hooked on. It’s all a dance. All body language.
I don’t continue with my session until their focus is on me.
It’s always their choice and they don’t need to be run into the ground tired.
(My husbands commentary always makes me “lol”)
Ride #5 for Vega!
I keep my first 10 rides or so very short, and always end on a good note.
Last time we worked on keeping forward motion.
At the beginning of the session (not taped), we picked back up at that.
But then she started thinking “trot” is the answer to everything.
So, in this clip we are working on some transitions with feel from my seat and body, rating back to a walk, and some light steering.
Had fun introducing the yoga ball to Vega today.
I like using the ball for training. You can do so much with it; changing eyes, steady vs rhythmic pressure, energy vs intention. And you can get them to gain confidence and start “tracking” it.
Watch til the end-she’s hilarious.
Ride #4 for Vega. Learning forward motion, and moving off my body and voice cues.
I typically ride western but none of my western saddles fit her. So I got this lil’ dressage saddle, and she’s so adorable in it. (Me not so much, & still waiting for my stirrups to come in lol)
Also, the red Sulphur mare sass is very apparent here 😆🤭
~I’m just back for the reels~
Fun in the snow working on some shoulder control with Nova today.
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*Western Saddle Fit Specialist*
