Rode outside the round pen again today, just pushed a little
harder that I have the past few days.
When a horse starts doing pretty well, handling everything you throw at
them…then it’s time to up the pressure a little.
We spent a most of the day learning how to trot straight
lines. Sounds kinda crazy and contradictory
to say that, don’t it? Here I have spent
weeks teaching her how to bend in a circle and release to pressure. Now today, we are working on straight line. Working circles makes that soft release
easier to understand, once you have some of that down…the straight lines teach
them how to travel out (without the aid of a fence to help them stay
straight).
She did as well as any horse I have ever ridden. Young horses tend to push their shoulders
back and forth, so we spent most of the day correcting a drift.
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