Tia is naturally a brave and curious horse but she has an aversion to water. This makes life in a 'Winterborne' village a little awkward because, even if the steam is a few feet away, she pushes into the horse that is leading her which can be a worry when there is passing traffic. Today we started work on asking her to allow her feet to get wet. At first she insisted on jumping the stream each time but after we had repeated it a number of times she started to splosh through it.
Here Jane demonstrates that lowering your own head can encourage a horse to lower its own.
One of the bonuses of today's visit, quite apart from lunch in the pub, riding Jane's veteran Lipizzaner horse, Easter.
