Reilly and I have been working on getting Special and Bellisimo conditioned. We have very different styles and its interesting to see how effective our methods are. Reilly really believes in trying to form a partnership with the horse and trying to earn a horses respect through native indian methods. I on the other hand use more traditional methods of working on respect. We each worked on lunging Special in the new round pen - which by the way is the best round pen I've ever seen. It is super heavy duty and perfect for a stallion.
Reilly was using the lunge line to move the horse away by sort of throwing the line at the horse. I on the other hand just free lunge using a lunge whip. Special has some really great movement and now that he had gained some weight and muscle is really lifting up in front as well as driving from behind.
Special is giving me a little trouble in that he keeps creeping forward on me... So we will be working on that first and make sure he has his foundation down solid before we work on his actual "standup".
He is really enjoying being out in the big pasture to run around - he loves to gallop and show off.
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