So Many Mustangs, So Little Time

When she arrived here, I thought Jerri was too frail to make a hand... but, hey, check this out:



That was yesterday. Today she rode him around in the round pen. He is the best of the three we are currently breaking to ride. I hopped up on Sparky a bunch. He is a little too hormonal these days and gets "ideas" too easy. So we did the halter driving exercise whenever he started dropping, and then as a reward he got to stand by the tire that acted as my trampoline to jump on his back. It was a good trick to make me being on his back the reward. Sparky fell for it.

I drove Cisco for 20 minutes before I rode him. I took him in the training pen (with all of our crazy obstacles) with the intent to stick with the exercise until he finally "got it". Well, he started out having already "got it". He just walked around in the pathway of my choice and listened to my gee and haw commands. He backs up and whoas. No fluff today. It was nice. Then he didn't want to end the training session, so I took him to the round pen and we practiced emergency dismounts. He thought it was fun and kept coming back to the fence to pick me up after I leaped off of him. Cisco is a very narrow horse and emergency dismounts are much easier on him than on Jemez Dancing, the broad boy who dominates the hay piles.

My two new books arrived today on riding on the lunge and on yoga for riders. Great books. I will review them on the HinnyWhisperer in a few days after I read them through. Naturally that is what inspired me to get into emergency dismounts.

I hear the Schultz girls might be coming next week for HorseCamp. We have to make a decision about how to get Lightening Bug and Paisley back home. It would be a 40 mile ride across a vast open area of NM. Hmmmm.