My normally placid, easy going gelding - has turned into the Devil Himself!!
Total and utter Demon-Horse today!! Firstly, it took me about 10 minutes to catch him - he ran endless circles around the paddock, as there was a loose gelding who was obsessed with the mare who's just foaled.... Consequence: 2 very stirred up geldings. (Huey, on the other hand, stood idily by and watched all the commotion!)
So I finally catch him - he's already drenched in sweat even though he was wearing a no fill combo. It's obvious he'd been hooning around for a while... Idiot.
I decide dto lunge. No riding Demon-Horse for me today. No sir-ee! I brush him down (another garbage bag full of hair session - how much hair can he freaking have LEFT now??!!) and then put on the roller and lunge cavesson ... We walk up to the arena, and he's snorting about this, that and everything else...
Our lunge session was pretty awful. He leaned on the cavesson (I will not use it again), he pulled, he jumped around, he wouldn't really listen. He got that worked up, I had to ask for everthing several times ... By the end, he was completely drenched in sweat and puffing like a steam train ... So it was NOT a productive lesson at all... Just like our last ride... So, I untacked him and walked him for several minutes to cool off/catch his breath before I hosed him completely down ...
I'm going to work him both days of the weekend. He seriously needs it - he's gone spastic on spring grass and turned into a different horse. If this keeps up, I doubt I'll bother with the show... Maybe just attend the led class, and not worry about the ridden.
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