Reiter, not yet, not yet, but seems like it will happen! Yes, another horse, poor mare with heaves, sweetest creature ever, and if we should have her as a first horse, I would probably have an illusion that a horse - it is so sweet an easy! 
It is very strange with Puika - he acts like he had born with saddle on his back, and we are really trying our best now to find out his mysterious past. He KNOWS what saddle means, lnows all the tricks to play with girth, and when you dress him up, he is standing like with a next step he is walking out of stable in Royal Ascot! 
We are putting pieces of the past puzzle together and can not put things right - he was bought from Gypsies and basically he is draft horse so there is no ways how he was trained into saddle in a proper manner, but seems that he was.
And he has one special trick for saddle. Maybe you who ride at least on a hobby level, can explain us that one - when Puika is standing with a saddle on, before he is mounted, he is moving his head up and down, like waving. He was not doing this when he was standing and waiting for bareback ride. And he is not agressiveat all, when you push his head down and hold, he is an angel just waiting for kisses and cuddles (he is never so sweet just for groundwork). As he is having these sudden changes, maybe he had properly trained as a sport horse and then writtendown by some unknown reason (Latvian breed goes for dressage here very well, and some of them had been top dressage horses in the world too). It is a mystery. The first time when we took saddle to Puika, he just sniffed it lie saying “Ah at least you found it! had missed it for a long time!”, and stand by himself stright. When saddle was placed, he was acting like "do not hesitate, lets go!’ Very interesting actually, I wish he would be able to tell his story!
