I had to noticed how many times, Regalo checked in with Jerilyn last night. She had him on a loose 22' line and she had it draping the ground and he was going slow. She would talk to him via the rope. Very quite movements and lots of letting him come in to her and she would rub him. He did the circling game and traveling circle game very well.
Backed him out of the field through the gate was another story. He decided he could make it out of the gate. She kept him on a short line and had him focus on her. When he wanted to go to the right or the left she simply put up an (imaginary electric fence line with the stick) gently moving from one side to another. He finally would come to rest in the middle. When he did settle in the middle, quietly she would ask him to back up through the gate. He had to do it over until he was relaxed and did it one foot at a time.
He took the bit and wore it the hold time she worked him and rode him. Thought that she would ride him with the bit and the hackmore at the same time, just till he got use to it.
We went into the arena and he was to go over the trot pole slowly and looking where he was going. This went very well and we moved off to the riding.
He was not to easy at first to get her to mount on the side of the wall. She told me to take him there a lot and let him get used to it. Maybe even put some hay or grain there for him to eat.
There was a lot going on in the arena and he was a little nervous. There was Kitty riding her horse that was wanting to trot around with his head up in the air and her moving all over the arena. She was going from outside in the woods to moving in the arena sort of fast behind him. He really didn't like that too much. Then we had Diane's granddaughter with her son and husband in the mix.
The little boy was running around and looking through the bars of the gate and this made Regalo a little upset. I had the white chair there and the mounting block for him to maneuver around. She worked him through the squeeze game and had him moving off her leg and trying to get him to cross the front legs over going towards the right . (moving his shoulders over) He really was stiff to this idea and she really worked on it.
He gaited a little not too much, but she said he will want to go into the gait and ask several times if he could gait. Keeping going in the nice steady pace of walk and small gait he was find.
Diane's granddaughters then rode Fanny out and around the arena at a walk trot and canter along with Regalo riding. He had a lot to contend with last night, but was steady and pretty cool.
All of this was about 2 hours long. He was hot and sweaty and I took him outside to the wash rack and he was very nervous going through the gate and the fan.
Water hose was scary too. I had to take the water and move it on the ground towards him and away from him. Finally just touching his feet and away. Then this was okay and we went on to wash him all over. He was then turned out into the woods and I went to rest.
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