Scirocco 2020

Great ride yesterday! oh my his shoulders are releasing! Sirocco has a new girl friend and he was pretty stuck on her while we were riding. So this is how it went.. 1. let Sirocco decide where to go 2. If he decided to go to Honey , he ended up doing small hindquarter push circles 3. Release going away from girl friend. Reward! 4. Repeat... 5. In the end we were going opposite directions and even had some nice trotting moments!

This week has been getting on and going week! First time bareback, lead line, both me and Gayle! that day was more about teaching him to "pick me up" and he learned it fast! Front and back view from on top! Second time, full western. A bit of movement, but not too much, great at the mounting pick up and listened to me asking him to move his hind end, even some back up, but not really willing to go explore the arena. Third day we had Buddha in the arena too that helped his desire to check out the arena, however, the Celeste distraction definitely hindered our focus! We did a lot of turning and soft asking for movement and turns, when he was focused he was fine and when he wanted to be someplace else...well it wasn't so fine...Oh man and then later he was just over the top with stallion behavior, chasing everyone off and moving her around and wow, something else to watch. Decided that the Specialized Saddle fits him the best. His rock is the issue with also how short his ba...

Its a joy to meet new horses and Scirocco is no exception ! He is curious, bold, almost playful, basically a gentleman (just a little pushy now and again) and best of all a vaccum cleaner! Always need one of those in the herd. He is basically with the herd now although I still separate the bunch, but doesn't seem to matter who I separate him with. Yesterday he and Rosie got their own field and Rosie wasn't so happy with that so got to galloping the field looking for a way to the others so Scirocco went along for awhile. He finally decided that was way too much running up and down the hill and stopped to eat while Rosie still ran a bit. I like taking the new ones for walks at first, no pressure, to find out who they are, what they react to, how they look to me, find some yummy grass, let them make choices. Scirocco was hesitant at first to go by himself, but then thought that it was interesting. We made it out to the street and stood there watching the cows acoss the way. He was...