Feisty is a 4 year old OTTB, who was "too lazy" to race. He's been with us three weeks so far, and what we've done is:
- Learn to stand tied (not cross-tied) in the aisle.
- Stand quietly for feet picking, grooming, and tacking.
- Load and unload in the trailer quietly.
- Go on rides in the trailer (haven't accomplished quietly).
- Lunge both directions at walk, trot, and canter.
- Graduate from little turn out to medium turn out, to middle pasture.
- Wear shipping boots and a fly mask.
- Have the fly spray squirted NEAR him (not ON him, my mistake the first day).
What's coming next is standing quietly next to the mounting block, and then after that is being ridden at the walk. I figure that will take a month, and then we'll start trot and canter in August (hopefully!).
It's a little slower going than I thought, but every day we do some work together (not the same thing two days in a row) and make it a little bit harder each day than it was the day before. Sometimes he struggles to figure out what I want, but he's a good boy and works through it.
The goal is to get him into regular lessons with John by the fall, so that next year he can go to derbies, and hopefully progress BN to N.
No comments:
Post a Comment