First time trying to send them up at a canter, they were perfect 🥰❤️. #romanriding #lusitanohorses
Who remembers when i shared my first rides on this horse..?
already 3 years
ago, he’s 6 years old now 🥲❤️and still every bit as perfect❤️
I started introducing
some little jumps into his training.
Friesians may not be particularly gifted jumpers but with the right training every (healthy) horse should be able to do some low level cavaletti and jumps. I think I actually quite enjoys it 😉#friesianhorse #classicaldressage
#horsetraining #younghorse
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The boys got introduced to our new smoke machine… 🤪 we’re going to need some more desensitization work but for never having seen anything like it they actually did really good. Of course Galahad was the bravest one and Eros was not interested in participating in our antics 🤣.
#friesianhorse #libertyhorsemanship
The boys and I are hard at work on our new liberty routine for this year’s upcoming performances 🤩! We aren’t doing any crazy new tricks but they are getting more fluid and consistent so I am super happy with the progress.#friesianhorse #libertyhorsemanship
Dancing at liberty with 3yo Caia
Caia is doing absolutely amazing in her liberty after being in full training for only about 2 months. Our focus this week has been working on these smooth changes of direction. This little mare is pretty exceptional 😍
Little Nemo had his dancing shoes one yesterday, followed by some serious zoomies 😆❤️
Boys are back to training and learning new things! 💪
Special moments with my special horse ❤️. We played in the water all morning and then spread out our blanket to have a picnic and a nap. Zamando thought it was a pretty good idea ☺️.
Zamando and Minnie making magic in the beautiful sunset last night… ❤️
My little dream team Roman riding off into the sunset 🥰. #romanriding #horses #beachhorse
We started working on this on Friday with Sylvia and Oitava’s already got it down at liberty ❤️
4th Roman riding session for Zamando and Oitava! They are such good kids 🥹❤️. We worked on smooth changes of directions, and finding harmony together. I’m blown away by how well they work with each other and how much they seem to enjoy it. #romanriding #equestrian #horsetraining #lusitanohorse
If you missed our performance at the Helping Our Miniature Equines fundraiser we are doing another one at Bridle trails park this Saturday July 1st! We will be performing at 10:45 and 12pm. This is a free event, very family friendly! Lots of other fun activities and entertainment 😁.
Playing voice commands at liberty… she is a sharp one.. 😍 I feel like it took a little while for us to get a consistent connection at liberty, she used to have a very short attention span and I had a hard time keeping her focused on me. In the last couple months that has really change and I really feel our relationship has reached a new level🥰. She is so quick and sensitive it has really forced me to be more precise with my aids and timing. #libertyhorsemanship #lusitanohorse #equestrian #positivereinforcement
4 days after our 1 vear anniversary together she gives me the most beautiful giftEveryday I am sograteful this little mare came into my life... I can’t believe it’s already been a year! When I bought her i had her breeder just keep her papers in her name since i was planning on selling her quickly so it wouldve been easier to just tranfer them to the next buyer. Two weeks later I called her and said she could sign them and we could transfer them to my name... oops ! I still cant say exactly what it is but there is this special feeling anytime i am around her and thats how I knew..❤️
2nd Roman riding session for these two awesome kids ❤️. I’m so amazed by how easily they picked this up!
Zamando got a well deserved rest day and the afternoon to hang out with his girl and munch on some fresh spring grass ❤️ #equestrianlife #lusitano #horse
Looks like we’ve got one more thing to add on the list of things to train each week… as if I needed more 🤪! I’m so amazed by how well these two work together, they are my little dream team ❤️🥹. I’ve done a tiny bit of Roman riding with Zamando and Oreo during Covid lockdown so I knew he had no problem with me standing on him (plus he’s been putting up with my sh*t for 8 years now) but Oitava has never done anything like this so I really wasn’t sure how she’d react. She was totally cool! Didn’t even balk the first couple times I stood up, not even a scoot sideways! I have a feeling we’re going to have fun with this… 🤭#romanriding #lusitanohorse #equestrian #horsetraining
Initially they figured this out pretty quickly but to get it to work this smoothly and consistently has taken quite a bit of practice 😅! This might seem like a super complicated thing to teach but what it is, is actually just a collection of a bunch of very simple things put together. The “complicated” part was figuring out exactly how I was going to break this down. I had to experiment a bit to find what pieces I needed to have and then how to put them all together. Training is a puzzle where you get to create all the pieces 🥰. #libertyhorsemanship #friesian #equestrian