Wednesday morning early, I thought I would try putting a Monte Foreman bit on Knight and see how he would handle that. I took him to my outdoor arena and just walked around , let him get comfortable with the new signals from a new bit. He seemed to be accepting it pretty quickly
I trotted him around, then ask him to lope and I was concentrating mainly on forward motion when I applied leg pressure. I feel like that I need to develop in him a more willing attitude to move forward when I ask him too. He's feeling pretty good right now, I loped him around the outside premier of the arena, straight lines across the arena and asked for a few lead changes.
He seems to be trying so I put him up and wait for this evening.
That evening back at the Pike County Fair I was to judge the horse show. So I took Knight along to ride him into the arena during the break time. When break time came I rode him into the arena and asked him to pick up a lope and he felt pretty good. He was really moving forward nicely so I loped him around the arena pretty fast and came across the center and he gave me a flying lead change so I let him stop at the opposite end of the arena that I had entered and I exited the arena on the opposite side that I had entered. It was a good night.
