I Love a Horse That is Old Enough...

..to know better.  Did that make any sense?  When you work with a young horse and they do something wrong - you have to analize it - you have to ask yourself questions.. like why is he doing this.. is he confused, is he scared and just reacted to something - is he hurting - or is he just being a butt head (as all horses are every once in a while)..

So when you have a horse who "knows better" one who has completed all his training .. has been there and done that, you come down to 2 choices... either he hurts or he is being a butt head!  Guess which answer is the correct one 85 % of the time ...or higher?  hee hee...

Well today - Joy came out to ride Revival.  Last week he was amazing .. so amazing we both beat ourselves up for not having a camera.... but not today.  Today, I had my best camera ready to go!  (that should have been my first clue...)  It was a beautiful sunny day but windy and the wind was cold.  It was the kind of day where you had to wear a jacket, but if the wind was not blowing, you would have been comfortable in a tank top!

Joy warmed him up in the round pen.  I am so glad we built that!  Then we took him over to the side to ride the long straight aways.

Did I mention it was windy!!!

For some reason today, Rev did not want to go down the fence line and would fight with Joy, trying to bully her into giving up, but Joy held her ground...

..and made him trot up ...

 ..and down ...

..and back again..

..and when he still misbehaved a bit - we took him all the way back to the end of the straight away and do circle work ... then - he worked like a champ.  What a stinker!...but quite a beautiful stinker!!!

I am not sure I will ever be able to trot this horse aside.  His hocks are just amazing , and this is what he does without shoes...