O Friday, what a crazy busy day you were, ups and down and arounds.. my typical o so quiet fridays was filled with horses, visiting and meeting new folks..

Goals for the day- Tack up and small short ride..

– Lunging

Well, she needed to wait her turn in the training today as work was being done with a different horse for a good bit of the morning, This was very useful for me in two ways, first I got to watch and that is a refresher course on reading body lang and watching my current horse mentor working with and training her horse, we both are going to the same end goal but there are differences in how we are getting there.. so being able to step back and watch allows me to see and learn her cues, her training commands and allows me to afterwards to ask her to explain what she means by this word or that word and translate it into my own known horse lang

Just two quick examples:

She said, the head down, for a in just being broke horse who bucked, translated into my lang, it was a hard buck, what we both meant was that the horse didn’t raise its head up, there was no give on the buck, she wanted that saddle of her back.. Just so you know, her session ended on a nice high note, with a great ear massage and a much relaxed horse that was giving her trust at that point.

A second example is we time our moving Clicks different and our go words are different and already having ground worked with Brandy for a few days, she is already looking for my commands, T’s is click yup, and mine is “walk on click”

So Brandy was tacked up, and lead around, then T got up on her for me and I lead her around, then we took off the lead rope and she had a soft and short ride, she moves well, she backed, and she goes right with ease, she is harder on the left turn.

That was all I wanted to do and we got her off and cooled off and brushed down, picked up her feet..

Last night after supper, we took a walk and then we did some stretch movements and command work, groomed, ears and tails etc..

Then I tried starting her on lunging and was playing with sounds, when suddenly she started to respond correctly, I got her into the big pasture and gave her all the rope I had at that time and O My!! she knows how to lunge, we did a nice warm up slow, med and fast walk in both directions and then we went to town, one big circle was down from slow walk to fast walk to trot, to canter and back down again..

My big baby is so out of shape, she broke a sweat doing her routine but to be fair, so did I, she was just so beautiful in that soft gentle canter! and when she is not walking double slow to try and match me, she really covers ground in her own natural walking pace.

After I turned her lose, she came over and asked for a hug, not just a pat, not just little snuggle, she was comfortable with me giving her a full body contact big hug, that’s a first as well..

Saturday has arrived and I will write tomorrow, but the goals are bringing out a 20 foot and or a 30 foot lunge line for one training, a walk with command ground work for the second and drive lines for her third.. I am trying to do three training seasons of no less then 20 min and no more then 40 min