I started Poco in the arena because my BO was in the roundpen working a horse. I had Poco lunge around me then worked up to Lunging for Respect st.1 and st.2. She did very well and barely pulled. After the roundpen cleared up I tacked her up (while she stood there cows were brought in and she kind of bumped into me and I did my best to keep her from doing that) and took her in there. I started with some sending, something was making her nervous on the other side of the pen so I sent her until she wouldn't mind it anymore. Then I tied her reins loosely to her saddle and lunged her, and lunged her and lunged her. After she was super sweaty (she always gets like this no matter what!) I grabbed my helmet, did a few more flexes (which she is getting very good at) and then hopped on. I also realized afterwards that that was Poco's first ride back in months! The things we worked on was the one-rein stop, a couple rollbacks, and moving forward. I thought she did very good for her first time back.
Our one step forward: she wasn't pulling on my nearly as much as she was in the beginning.
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