21st February, 2015 Running Out of Words

After a long day at the 'office', I've almost run out of words so I shall let the pictures do most of the talking....

Friend Colin's trailer at Godshill. New Forest ponies are eyeing up his haynet.

Jasmine' s second session. polishing off the desensitisation work in a few seconds flat before going out for a walk on the Forest. First time she's been out for quite a while and yet she was really brave and happy.

Young show pony Silver (Newbrook Glamarous) going out and about on the farm later, meeting the cows and going up the lane, practising a bit of groundwork.

Smart Friesian, Lottie, has been trained using natural horsemanship techniques and was recently started under saddle. She is a little worried about being mounted and ridden in the school. We introduced long reining as an alternative to single line circle work enabling her to be worked in straight lines and eventually over obstacles. The mounting went well with the addition of a clickered reward and we did some slow work on adrenalin levels including breathing and relaxing.