To ride dressage is to dance with your horse, equal partners in the delicate and sometimes difficult work of creating harmony and beauty.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Better!

I just got in from working Cohort, and am pleased to report it went well. He was much more cooperative under saddle, not quitting once on me. I lunged him first, then used all the same verbal cues while riding. Kept it short and sweet, and he seemed pleasantly surprised.

Before riding I trimmed his bridle path with the clippers and sprayed him down with fly spray without reaction. The boy still has straight "A"s on his ground manners report card!

3 comments:

sylkan said...

Yay, bad boy shaping up! He is SO sweet on the ground, it's hard to believe what a snot he can be under saddle. Good work!!

Sylvia

Lori Skoog said...

What a sweet boy!

TBDancer said...

So much easier to work with horses that have good ground manners. They might be pigglies under saddle, but on the ground a lot of basics can be reinforced. Keep up the good work. ;o)