Outside Ride

Today it was dry enough to ride in the big outdoor arena. (Won't be tomorrow, though, it's pouring rain right now!) I rode Napoleon for quite awhile. He is getting good at his trot,keeping a better cadence on the rail. He was great to mount and dismount. He was calm with the other horses and cows moving around as well. There were guests here today roaring around on their 3 wheelers and motorcyles and he was good about that too. We worked on a lot of sidepassing again, as well as turns on the haunches.Worked on some leg yielding. We had some struggles with the lope. He really wanted to completely run off - rubber necked big time - and wanted to run down into the gate. Zane helped us with that and we were able to progress with control at the lope by the end of the session. Lots of loping will be the plan again for tomorrow. On Thursday, he has his first official trailer ride and we have an appointment with the equine dentist. The farrier will be working in the morning and I have plans for him to maybe hold and rasp his feet. (baby steps :)