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Training cancled today due to Kim's truck needing to go to the shop, so it's been moved to Friday.
Thursday is my last day for Drawing II and that will give me more time to work on my own stuff again, yay!
Chewy and Dakota had their teeth floated on Friday and, as Chatham said, both are "cheap drunks." Dakota was quite out of it and leaned heavily on the chest bar, but Chewy was much worse. The little mare kept on crossing her hind legs like a newborn foal and leaning heavily to either side, whichever would support her. At one point she had some issues standing and needed assistance to place her weight squarely on her left fore rather than placing it on her fetlock, poor little mare. It took a while for both of them to come out of it before loading up and bringing them back home.
Saturday we took out a few of the horses, Mom, her friend, JJ, and I. I rode Panda, Mom, of course, on Dakota, and her friend, Rachel rode Kash. JJ was on her grey mare, Juliet. It was quite a good ride and JJ kept the pace up to a fair speed. A lot of walking and quite a bit of trotting.
Kash did really well for Rachel, which made me quite happy, she said she hadn't had many positive experiences with Arabs, so it was good to hear he gave her one.
Panda did excellent. She only goobered about the Bicycles, which is understandable as she hasn't had much exposure to them. Even then, it wasn't a big spook, just a little shaky and unsure. We were just behind JJ, who was in the lead almost the whole ride and Panda really wanted to catch up at one point. I had her in a steady trot, and then she started building. She ignored my aids to slow down and jumped into the canter. I wasn't having any of that and did an emergency stop, gripping the cantel with my left hand I reached up and pulled her head around to the right. Thankfully we missed the barrel cactus and she came to a stop. After that she was a bit more responsive to my half-halts and checks on her speed. She wasn't trying to run away per-se and she would have stopped once she caught up with Juliet, but she needs to learn patience and to pay attention to her rider more than the horses around her when it comes to her speed.
Time to do something productive, I'm going outside.
Thursday is my last day for Drawing II and that will give me more time to work on my own stuff again, yay!
Chewy and Dakota had their teeth floated on Friday and, as Chatham said, both are "cheap drunks." Dakota was quite out of it and leaned heavily on the chest bar, but Chewy was much worse. The little mare kept on crossing her hind legs like a newborn foal and leaning heavily to either side, whichever would support her. At one point she had some issues standing and needed assistance to place her weight squarely on her left fore rather than placing it on her fetlock, poor little mare. It took a while for both of them to come out of it before loading up and bringing them back home.
Saturday we took out a few of the horses, Mom, her friend, JJ, and I. I rode Panda, Mom, of course, on Dakota, and her friend, Rachel rode Kash. JJ was on her grey mare, Juliet. It was quite a good ride and JJ kept the pace up to a fair speed. A lot of walking and quite a bit of trotting.
Kash did really well for Rachel, which made me quite happy, she said she hadn't had many positive experiences with Arabs, so it was good to hear he gave her one.
Panda did excellent. She only goobered about the Bicycles, which is understandable as she hasn't had much exposure to them. Even then, it wasn't a big spook, just a little shaky and unsure. We were just behind JJ, who was in the lead almost the whole ride and Panda really wanted to catch up at one point. I had her in a steady trot, and then she started building. She ignored my aids to slow down and jumped into the canter. I wasn't having any of that and did an emergency stop, gripping the cantel with my left hand I reached up and pulled her head around to the right. Thankfully we missed the barrel cactus and she came to a stop. After that she was a bit more responsive to my half-halts and checks on her speed. She wasn't trying to run away per-se and she would have stopped once she caught up with Juliet, but she needs to learn patience and to pay attention to her rider more than the horses around her when it comes to her speed.
Time to do something productive, I'm going outside.