hello! so the other day I met with a trainer who specializes in gaited horses. He taught me how to get Danny Boy into his gait and worked with me on keeping him in his gait. When the training session ended he gave me a homework assignment:
1) Keep Danny on the egde of the round pen or areana when riding - dont let him cut corners.
2) Keep him in whatever gait I ask him to do - making sure he does what I want
3) Make him halt straight on - no turning in
4) Teach him how to do a 180 - without moving his front feet
Hopefully I will be able to work with him on all those things. I still need to get out and see him more, but with the end of the school year around the bend, its a little difficult. He is a good boy, and I love him emensly so I hope I will be able to see him more often.
~Kayla
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
new farm!
Yay! We finnally moved the horses out to PS2 (paradise stables #2) Paradise stables are broken up into 2 differen farms. The owner wants to buy the farm in between her two properties to make one huge farm....I will let you know if that ever becomes a reality. Anyhoo...Danny and Dante are acting like two grumpy old men. they never leave eachothers side and they dont socailize with the other horses in the field. Right now they are acting like their own heard.
Have I told you that Im riding english in my lessons? Yep, that way I can take lessons with Kelsey, become and accomplished horsewoman, and meet new friends. I havent had time to work with Danny yet, but I am riding this cute thoroughbred named CJ. He is pretty darn cute. He has an amazing canter! When I am trotting though I miss Danny Boys smooth gait. ;)
I need to pull Danny out and introduce him to the indoor riding arena. He has never been in one (that I know of) so I want to see how he does. (freak? calm? curious?) i also need to throw him in the round pen and work on gait cues. (walk = walk, click = gait, kiss = canter) I havent cantered him in a while so I definitely need to work on that. When I get an english girth (maybe saddle) for him, Amanda, my trainer, says i can ride him in the lesson. Dont freak, Im still a faithfull western rider. Its still the best in my mind. English is just another way to ride. I will still trail ride western and ride Danny, (outside of lessons) western.
Hopefully (and I know i finish with this every time) I will be more faithful to updating this blog. <3 Kayla
Have I told you that Im riding english in my lessons? Yep, that way I can take lessons with Kelsey, become and accomplished horsewoman, and meet new friends. I havent had time to work with Danny yet, but I am riding this cute thoroughbred named CJ. He is pretty darn cute. He has an amazing canter! When I am trotting though I miss Danny Boys smooth gait. ;)
I need to pull Danny out and introduce him to the indoor riding arena. He has never been in one (that I know of) so I want to see how he does. (freak? calm? curious?) i also need to throw him in the round pen and work on gait cues. (walk = walk, click = gait, kiss = canter) I havent cantered him in a while so I definitely need to work on that. When I get an english girth (maybe saddle) for him, Amanda, my trainer, says i can ride him in the lesson. Dont freak, Im still a faithfull western rider. Its still the best in my mind. English is just another way to ride. I will still trail ride western and ride Danny, (outside of lessons) western.
Hopefully (and I know i finish with this every time) I will be more faithful to updating this blog. <3 Kayla
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