Poco's Training Log #4

Poco showed quite a bit of improvement today! Especially for not being worked for three days. I didn't have much time so I told myself just to do simple things that she already knew but we actually did a few new things with ease!

I brought her into the barn (there was no one there, zero!) and lunged her on the lunge line. The first time I tried lunging her on the line she was all over the place, pulling immensely, and was nervous at every move I made towards her. Today, she was almost a different horse, not completely but well on her way there. I had her start out walking while throwing the whip over her back to help her become more desensitized to it then did a lot of trotting along with our oh so helpful lunging for respect. We tried a little bit of cantering but she still needs work on softening up while doing it. I think transitions will work well for that as well as more flexing on that side. I took some video of her lunging but my stupid phone won't send it to my computer, hopefully I can get it up soon. At the end I did a lot of whip desensitization, some flexing, and then was done. She definitely has improvement, all the trainers said she was basically impossible. I'd like to see what they say a few months from now!