This winter has been a fun one so far with our weather goingg up and down so it can make out side ridding kind of hard to do for thous of us that don't have indoor ridding arenas close buy. So for me I'm stuck ridding out side all winter in the deep snow watch is way to much fun to be good for you. lol
It makes it hard to work on some stuff cause lopping can be to dangerous. so it's just many jogging watch is good a healthy for your horses to stretch his legs and get moving in the cold weather.
When i ride Mars i have to be a little care full he likes to go and also to go strait up and have some fun. He don't like it when I'm bear back but that how i ride in the winter so he has to deal with it. I always have to make sure he's in a listening mod or if her just wants to fight before i decide to go out on the road with him, he's kind of a touchy horse but i love him. Mars also has a bunch of weight he needs to lose so he will be the one doing more mails this winter.
Pretty is much more comae and quit, i have no concerns about her but she needs the more training with new and different things.
Dec 28/ 2010
Up till today i have just been ridding my two horses in my out door arena, when it's cold i only ride with halter and lead road and bare back, no cold bit in the mouth for either Mars or Pretty this way it's a kind of different training, more voice commands then anything. Today was a very nice day so i figured me and Mars would go for a 2 mail jog around the block with just halter and lead roap and he did very good. there was a couple times he wanted to pick up the pas and go home much faster then i wanted him to so we had to have a little talk about that. we did our 2m jog half of it was slow and steady the other i let him really strach out his legs and he very much liked that except when i asked him to slow back down again.
I just road Mars today and i did some halter work with Pretty, she needs to learn how to jog beside me instead of behind me.
