Lots to catch up on. A few weeks ago Fresca was booked to go to a 3 day Horsemanship clinic with her mum, who was sadly unable to attend last minute, so gifted the spot to me!
Started off crazy, couldn’t find her in the field again, but eventually tracked down where they were hiding, after discovering there is a hole in one of my rubber boots, just above the heel, that lets in water when you go wading. I fact that was annoying, but paled into insignificance two steps later, when the dry foot managed to step in a spot deep enough that the water came in over the top, so got plenty of nice slough water on board. When i eventually found and caught her, I actually had to use the GPS on my phone to find out where we were, and plot the best way back to the barn. It was nearly 3/4 of a mile, avoiding all the impassable places, with her spinning circles and yelling in my ear, I was not happy.
But things improved so much, she loaded like a dream, settled into the pen at the venue really nicely, was happy to see me every morning, and was a star. She hated the first session though, not a big arena, and far too many horses in it for her liking. We did manage to extend her personal bubble through the whole clinic, and she just does ears back and air snaps, no actual threat to bite, and mean it, or kick, but doesn’t like to be crowded.
She did so well, through the ground exercises, to the simple mounted work, giving us good exercises to work onto improve softeness
Hey, what are we doing now?
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You are in my space!
She isn’t eating here, she is asleep, lunch on the third day, her legs were starting to buckle.
The last exercise we did, was meant to be one continous flow, lope, stop, roll back, lope off. I struggled so much, stop, try and be square, count 5 then move…….”NO, no stopping, one movement” 
It was great fun.
