Catching her in the round pen is so easy now. Even if something is exciting her, I can get her hooked up and she is following me immediately. I am handling her face with reasonable safety now. She likes to nip at things, but at least I can have a hand on her face to push it away if needed.
I saddled her up for the second time, which was trickier than I had hoped. I should have worked her a bit more first. With the saddle we did all work except turn and go, which I felt would have been a little hairy. Her rope work with the saddle was predictably a little trickier and not so solid. Turn and go without the saddle was almost dead calm, btw.
She jumped a 2' vertical today and trotted through barrels. She looks good in my black dressage saddle and once she stops jumping when I slap the leather I think she will be ready for the first ride.
Really amazing, Charlie! Would love to see more video when you can.
ReplyDeleteImpressive what you've accomplished so quickly. You wouldn't believe how long it took me just to get a halter on my mustang, Blaze. I'm not even going to say. Blaze came from Beattys Butte HMA in SE Oregon and was captured Sept 2009, two months before Maddie. He then spent the winter at Palimino Valley holding factility in NV before being trucked to the adoption at Marshfield WI.
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