July 21, 2016

Good day! I hope this good day streak keeps going! Doc has improved so much on his little circles, collection, roll backs and moving off leg pressure. He will collect almost any time I ask him too now and will  move off leg pressure while being collected. Doc really is the smartest horse. We worked more on spins today and then worked on arcs. This is a really fun thing that you can do to get your horse to pick up his front shoulder and move over. If he learns how to do this well it will be one of the most beneficial things for him to do in the barrel pattern. Because Doc picked up on this so fast I decided to work a tire drill. The drill I worked is similar to this video. http://www.trainingbarrelhorses.com/video-vault/drills/danyelle-c-circular-tire-drill It is a really fun drill, but it takes the horses a while to master it. My drill today was no where near as pretty as this one.