Paint horse was a bubble brain when I got on him tonight. Not sure if it's cause he was used in a lesson yesterday, or because he spent a day in a tie stall, or if it was just a "white brain" blip (darned paints!), but he definitely started out a twit, leaping tarps, spooking at light beams, the corner, kids, the door, a bottle on the ground....yeah... as if he hasn't been broke for over a year now. He's such a dumbass (And I say that with great affection), sometimes. Then, he was much more resistant/heavy than usual.
But there were only two of us in the lesson, so we worked on supple-ing exercises and it really came along well... once he remembered that he did not have a 4x4 of steel implanted all the way down his neck. Overall, a good ride. It was exactly what he needed... a lot of the crap he was dishing out at the beginning of the ride magically disappeared.
Left him in overnight, since it forces me to go out tomorrow and ride him again. Maybe I'll find a way to schedule things so I actually start riding regularly. Hmmmm...
Of course, the only problem with that is somewhere along the way, I wound up LIKING the paint horse. So much so that it's almost too bad I can't deal his owner out of him. That was certainly not part of the plan. Ah well.
Kind of looking forward to riding tomorrow. Maybe I'll try and finangle a second horse to ride, too.
And at some point... I will need to get some pictures...
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