I figured that I should take the day off and have a PJ day. Its also snowing here AGAIN. I did go to the barn last night and took Lucas for another drive. It was intresting, I didnt free lunge him but let him have some time on his own in the indoor before I tacked him up. He spooked bad at the kitten playing in the lumber and in the process of me trying to correct him he ended up tangled in the lines.
Thank god some one hobbled him when he was a youngster! The minute he gets any type of rope around his legs he stops dead. Its saved me twice now. The first time he bucked, and reared and ended up grabing the lungeling between his front feet. He hit the ground, then stopped.
This time, in the spook we got our lines crossed as he spun and ran (he turned left quicker than I could) but within a stride of them getting crossed he stopped and waited for me to untangle him. I know it shouldn't happen, but it does. And thats when him knowing what "whoa" means and knowing that any rope in a wrong place means stop as well.
We did some figure 8's both at the walk and the trot using the whole ring, going large at a walk and a trot. He did great, we did have some stickyness doing some turnes to the right, but some flexing worked him out of them. Then we did some 2 tracking, which he wasnt sure about right way, but he caught on quickly. Hes really driving up underneith himself when using the lines, which is only going to help when I start to ride him again.
2 comments:
Sorry you're not feeling well, but sometime a PJ day in the snowy weather is alright.
Sounds like your horse is smart to stop when he gets tangled in a rope. Glad there was no real trouble with that. Lunge work is always good for them to keep them going when they can't be ridden.
I heard the east coast was going to get hit again. Hope you aren't buried for too long!
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