Day 14, June 27th

Started out early this morning, saddled Solomon and the mustang and was headed for the round pen I had found the night before. He saddled up nicely and led out through the crowd without a problem. He is really starting to settle in. When I finally reached the round pen, there was one of the university people told me I couldn't use the pen. So I then led him back to the stall and put a plastic bag on the saddle again. He still is really troubled by the plastic bag. He tenses up, kicks at the bag, kicks at the wall. So I tied him up in the stall and let him wear the plastic bag while Tell showed his roping horse today. Tell was World Champion Header and Reserved Heeler. When I came back to the stall he seemed to be a lot quieter. So I unsaddled him and brushed out the sweat marks and put him back in the stall through the heat of the day. When the sun started going down and it was cooling off, I saddled him up again and I went for a walk around the fairgrounds. Once again there were alot of kids on bikes, one little dog got away from his owner and was dragging his leash in the gravel, golf carts zipping by, but all of this stuff is becoming less and less scary to the horse. Activities in the main arena had finished so I led him into the bright lights of the main arena. Trotted him around, got him to do some circles in front of me, move to the left and right, then I walked around the arena. He seemed to be accepting things very well. Took him back to the stall, unsaddled him, brushed, fed , watered him and I put him to bed.