The Working Horse

[glenatron]

We'd been doing some work with a couple of ground poles, Small practicing being brave around them ( which isn't really a problem these days ) and Zorro practicing not stomping on them. At the end of the session we stopped and I looped my reins over the saddle horn and left Zorro while I stowed the poles back in the corner of the arena where they are kept. He just stood there, head low and neck relaxed, patiently watching and waiting until I finished and went back to him.

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[ebee.livejournal.com]

Its weird how they pick their moments like that isn't it? I was lunging Max when a friend came off him recently, he stopped dead, i dropped the line and he just stood totally still til we came back to him.

[gnapp.livejournal.com]

Good Zorro! (It's so practical to be able to do that.)

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

It really is. It's something I expect from a horse that knows their job, but Zorro is - among all the horses I have known - uniquely challenging in that respect. So when we get the proper working-horse stuff it feels pretty good to me.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

It's how you should be able to work it always I think, but with a lot of horses we don't get to that point reliably - with Zorro I'm certainly not there outside the arena, but seems like we have a good start in one place at least...

[skiesfirepaved.livejournal.com]

What a good horse. :) Pepsi would have gone charging off to stuff her face with whatever food-like substance she found lying around ... but then again, you have photographic evidence of how well Pepsi and I don't work together.

[http://users.livejournal.com/blitzen_/]

that's awesome!

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Pepsi is just a supercool little horror mare.

[joycemocha.livejournal.com]

It builds from this. Cool--you're on the first step.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

If only the rest of the world was less... appetising.

[ebee.livejournal.com]

I often wonder if its something Fresiams get the hang of from their working horse background..

[penella22.livejournal.com]

Yesss!!