Today

This is just a quick post to record how well Starbuck behaved today, Javi's help the other day really did the trick.  I think the other thing that helped was mixing things up a little and making a lesson plan before starting to work.  This is what we did, all in the space of about an hour:

• Friendly game with a new brightly coloured rag.
• Tie up with other horses near arena, groom and pick up feet.
• Lead around the arena at a walk.
• Porcupine game on hind and forequarters.
• Longeing on a short (2 meter) line at the walk and a slow trot- she did this really really well and only turned to face me once!
• Tie up with other horses near arena.
• Shower (Starbuck's stepping slowly and controlledly off the shower platform these days!)
• Then I gave her a brand and linseed mix and some fresh alfalfa as a treat and we were done!

So we'll keep trying to plan more training sessions like this one in the future and see if it pays off, we'll keep you posted!