training

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