Wow time has flown by! Its hard to believe this is the 85th day. I have been riding Knight around our neighbor on the gravel roads. With all the moisture we've had, his feet soften up and
he was sore. So today I put shoes on him. At first he was pretty skeptical of me tapping on the bottom of his feet. But after he threw a temper tantrum and got through his anger issues he excepted shoeing. I am pleased with how Knight is riding. We have been working over obstacles and various maneuvers and I am looking forward to Fort Worth.
Day 76, Aug 26
Knight continues to improve. He's turning around easier. Driving from behind better.
Guiding better. He's really starting to do stops and turns. He's in rotation with all the
other horses here at Cappel Systems. We're looking forward to the competition.
Guiding better. He's really starting to do stops and turns. He's in rotation with all the
other horses here at Cappel Systems. We're looking forward to the competition.
Day 64, Aug. 14th
I ride Knight early each morning. I work on keeping him soft and responsive. I ride alot of straight lines. I usually walk until he feels comfortable. I usually have him move his hind quarters left and right at a walk. Then I will ask him to skip the trot and go right into a lope.
I lope straight lines across the pen, diagonally, and down the center. Sometimes I will side pass at the lope towards the center of the arena, then back out to the opposite corner and do that on each side of my arena. I change often to keep him from anticipating. Mostly working on him traveling forward freely. He usually starts out resisting not wanting to go forward and finishes up free and willing.
I lope straight lines across the pen, diagonally, and down the center. Sometimes I will side pass at the lope towards the center of the arena, then back out to the opposite corner and do that on each side of my arena. I change often to keep him from anticipating. Mostly working on him traveling forward freely. He usually starts out resisting not wanting to go forward and finishes up free and willing.
Day 60, Aug. 10th
Sunday afternoon we're headed or Springfield, IL. We're going to Calvary Temple Christina Center where people will be gathering for a western day at their church. Their having a chuck wagon cookout, a world champion gun spinner, bird dog pointing and retrieving exposition,
a cowboy prize for best western cowboy and cowgirl outfit and we will do a demonstration with
Knight before we listen to the band of the "Sons of the San Joaquin." When we arrived they had a tent set up on their church parking lot where people were to gather to eat. I have rode Knight up near the people and as usual people gathered around him and wanted to touch him. He's getting to where he really eats this up. He loves all the attention. The only seemed to have trouble him was a gentlemen came in and had his son up on his shoulders. Knight did not like that. But after alittle while he calmed backed down again and I rode him over to the baseball field where we were to do our performance. I was the first to go. Knight was ready. He felt pretty good, but there's still more resistance in the forward movement than I would like for him to have. He allowed me to do everything I asked him to do. But he hasn't quite yet given all of him ability over to me. I was pleased that he let me lope him around and he gave me a nice flying lead change and we finished the demo with a nice sliding stop.
a cowboy prize for best western cowboy and cowgirl outfit and we will do a demonstration with
Knight before we listen to the band of the "Sons of the San Joaquin." When we arrived they had a tent set up on their church parking lot where people were to gather to eat. I have rode Knight up near the people and as usual people gathered around him and wanted to touch him. He's getting to where he really eats this up. He loves all the attention. The only seemed to have trouble him was a gentlemen came in and had his son up on his shoulders. Knight did not like that. But after alittle while he calmed backed down again and I rode him over to the baseball field where we were to do our performance. I was the first to go. Knight was ready. He felt pretty good, but there's still more resistance in the forward movement than I would like for him to have. He allowed me to do everything I asked him to do. But he hasn't quite yet given all of him ability over to me. I was pleased that he let me lope him around and he gave me a nice flying lead change and we finished the demo with a nice sliding stop.
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