Did not get a lot of opportunity to work with Hoss this week, so today I chose to ride him. He was really "high". He strikes me as a horse that really like to move out and work. So that's what we did. I started out in his ground eating walk, asking him to tuck his nose. Once he was consistently giving to that ask, I sped him up a little. His head went out and his nose went up! So of course, we were back (at a trot, back hollowed out) out of control again. I kept him in a trot and again started asking him to tuck his nose as we went. It didn't take him long to get more collected. I did not lope him much, just too hot to get him that over heated.
I did work on some turns as he felt like a carousel horse. Meaning he wanted to turn on his middle and felt like he had a pole guiding his steps whenever we turned. Now some ground work will clean this up, but since I was riding...I did some turns into the fence. He was more willing to turn on his hind end, but he needed to go slow to learn where to put his feet. There are still lots of opportunities for him to get better.
FYI....Hoss went home today. Good luck Robin and Lynn!
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