Wally
27th Oct 2002, 09:45 PM
Our new boy who Monty found is starting to shape up. He's terribly green and out of practice. He had a horrid choppy little trot, poked his nose for Britain and had a silly every time your stirrup caught on the boards in the school. Trotting poles were out to kill him and jumps had terrorists hiding in them! Put the lights on in the indoor school and the shadows..........
But now he's working well and got over most of his terrors.
He responds really well to reward by way of a few nuts, not something I use a lot as it can make horse too expectant, but it's paid divvies with Cymro.
The other day we were making him work hard over poles and grid work, every time he tried hard he got a break and a rattle of nuts. I was hiding the nuts in a small bucket under a jump bucket. It was a late night session and we didn't finish until the back of 8 o' clock so I didn't tidy the school up (as I should)
Next morning Cymro walzed into the school, went straight to the upturned bucket, rolled it over and helped himself to the remaining nuts in the reward bucket, how about that for a memory? SO whenever anyone tells you horses don't remember or are stupid....oh no they're not!
But now he's working well and got over most of his terrors.
He responds really well to reward by way of a few nuts, not something I use a lot as it can make horse too expectant, but it's paid divvies with Cymro.
The other day we were making him work hard over poles and grid work, every time he tried hard he got a break and a rattle of nuts. I was hiding the nuts in a small bucket under a jump bucket. It was a late night session and we didn't finish until the back of 8 o' clock so I didn't tidy the school up (as I should)
Next morning Cymro walzed into the school, went straight to the upturned bucket, rolled it over and helped himself to the remaining nuts in the reward bucket, how about that for a memory? SO whenever anyone tells you horses don't remember or are stupid....oh no they're not!