Cantering through the forest #northrimGrandCanyon
Training day!!! #everyday! Love my life!!!
Pepsi training day! First ride
Training horse Rocky
He has come a long way.
Spirits first time out
Not bad for his first time and cows almost ate him lol #terrified
Sunny the Training horse. She’s improving so much!
My 6 year old rocks!! His first real real lesson. I guess he’s been watching everyone that visits for lessons. So proud 💕
My washed mortar sand has arrived. My arena is almost complete.
Not bad for a 20 year old retired barrel horse. Hopefully she can help my students achieve some goals if they get brave enough 😬
Horse groundwork
Groundwork lesson today with Spirit.
The first few tries he didn’t want to turn inside when changing directions but after only about 5 minutes of work, he was doing it!
Ideally you want your horse to turn toward you when changing directions. Turning to the outside is a flight reaction. Turning to the inside the horse is joining you or becoming part of you.
He even did it correctly for my student. Good job Dawn and Spirit! We also included a little desensitizing work.
Great lesson day!!
Kera Mandala #TheTravelingTrainer
Dawn Dybdahl
Something about this mare makes me want to run barrels!!! I truly miss O-Mok-See!!!!