We started in the roundpen just to warm up. Then we worked on groundwork; we started with lots of backing, Poco tends to throw her head in the air when I ask her to back so I worked on getting her to lower her head and accept the pressure. Then we did disengaging the hind, yielding the front, and just basic ground stuff. Then I started her on Lunging for Respect st.1 and st.2 (this is from Clinton Anderson's program, and if things go well I will be using a lot of his techniques, they are working well for her). She did well with all of that while in the round pen. Then I took her to the arena and did some more Lunging for Respect in there and it went very well, she thought about pulling only a couple times but ended up saving my hands, very happy!
After we were all done I groomed her and picked out her feet (she pulled away one of her feet but I made her behave). Then I showed her a scary bag to help start building confidence and then took her back to her pasture.
That is pretty much all I did with her, still a step forward though!
As for miss Ava she did great! I lunged her only for a bit to get her wiggles all shook off (although, she didn't have any!) and then I tacked her up to ride. We had to do most of our riding in the round pen because a cutting lesson was going on in the arena at the time. We still got a lot of things done though, I started to get her to began collecting! I don't know why I haven't really focused on it before but I guess the time was now! After the lesson was over I took Ava into the arena and worked more on the collecting. Then I had her canter some small circles, neck-rein at the canter, and desensitizing to this red can filled saddle bag. Ava did very well, she is coming along nicely. I do need to advance her along more though, she is starting to become too good at what she is doing, haha! So, I'll be looking for some new stuff for us to do. We need to start on carrying a flag if I decide to rodeo queen this year!
And Poco!
Sounds like things are going great!
ReplyDeletePlastic bags. . .I always have to laugh when people say their horses are afraid of them. Shy loves them, she knows food usually comes in them :)
I've seen a lot of Clinton Anderson's methods put into practice by people with young/green horses and they seem to work really well. They're practical and seem to work on many different horses. I'm glad to hear things are going well with both horses! :)
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