Day 2 at James Roberts Foundation Station.
The 2nd day at JRFS – started at 9 am with the horses in the outdoor arena, it was a beautiful sunny day. We spent the first part of the session online getting the horse to yield fore and hind quarters. Benny got away on one circle but came back fairly quickly. We played touch it after 4 circles to give him a focus. Benny still a bit sticky with the lateral flexion in the halter in company. Then time to mount and do the fore and hind quarter yields in the saddle. Benny was much better on the ground with the hind quarter yields than he was when i was riding, something to practice. Forequarter yields are OK but not perfect but we have been doing them in the arena at home on the turns. Then we trotted for 10 minutes on each rein. Benny eventually had a nice forward trot and one imprompu little canter as he tried to catch everyone up. I had to put up my stirrups for the trotting as felt much more stable. Did circles and straight lines. Then we went for at walk round the block to cool off. I rode in the halter but found Benny would not stop when asked so had to do some lateral flexions – the sheep were very interesting but every thing else he took in his stride – tractors and barking dogs.
Positive Horsemanship. 