I am no longer the only boarder riding on a regular basis! Although some of the kids have kept up with lessons on the weekends, I'm usually on my own during the weeknights. However Tankers owner was at the barn on Thursday night for the first time since Christmas. (Shes been spending more time on her family's beef farm but now that calving season is over she'll be at the barn more)
So we tacked up and rode together. Tanker was great, for having a couple of months off she went right back into work. Lucas not so much! He was quite upset that he had to share the arena, and that Tanker was in 'his' space! Considering that they can't bear to be separated when they are outside it was funny behavior. So after we got a couple of trips around at the walk, we had Tanker and her owner ride around us in tight circles, and pass us a couple of times in each direction until Lucas realized that it really wasn't that bad.
After that we had a decent ride, both of us had a break longer than expected with my flu, but he had some great trot work and we did some serious work on getting some control over his back end with some hip in/out work and even did some shoulders in as well. D told us to start working in some turns on the forehand to keep him from 'locking' up like he tends to do when something becomes hard.
My friends horse came in on Friday, and the girl that did some riding on Lucas last summer brought her horse back today, so the barn is filling up!
Our halter mare had her Appaloosa baby on Thursday! She a very well developed filly who is very happy and healthy and loves people, her only downfall is that she didn't get much color. I hope to get some pictures soon to share!
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Sounds like there is a lot of excitement at the barn lately. Glad to hear you rode Lucas. It will be nice to have friends around to ride with too.
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