Yesterday was pretty windy here. I knew I wanted to go riding that day but it was a little bit chilly. But I sure that I wouldn't get to ride today, so I decided to try it.
We saddled up Dusty, I played w/ him a bit while saddling. Moving the blankets around, flopping the saddle and things like that. He gets a little antsy when saddling and I'm not sure why. I've only had him a bit over a week. Once the saddle is on, then he calms down. The first time we saddled him, he didn't like the hackamore, (hackmore?) to go around his mouth. We got it on w/o too much fuss and this time was much better. We knew already that he didn't like his mouth worked with.
We got him loaded in the trailer and went about a mile to the barn and unloaded him. We've been working on backing him out of the trailer instead of going straight out forwards. He gets very nervous about it but he done so good. No big problems, no running out backwards, just tiny baby steps back and he was out.
I stepped on him and he done really well. He doesn't care too much for turning right, so we worked on that some. He wanted to follow my bf out of the barn and had a little fit about not getting to go. I hope I worked some of that out of him by just continuing to ride him and not letting him get his way. We were both tired by the time we left the barn but I think it was a good experience for both of us.
The barn will prolly see us again tomorrow if things work out as planned.
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