Reform School Begins

Paloma was a star yesterday for stage 2 of her trip to Bauhr Ranch. She loaded easily, traveled pretty well (although we could feel her moving around a lot in the back, as she was loose), and waited patiently to get out of the trailer when we arrived. It was 100 miles to La Grange from Wilton, not a bad trip.

Steve put her to work in the round corral, doing a project with another horse. Paloma was the horse to make the other one go, and the two had to get together as a team. She had to learn when it was that Steve was directing the other horse, and not to take off at a run. She figured it out after a few loops; she's a quick study and she'll learn patience eventually.

then Steve introduced the guaracha pole - I'll have to look up the spelling. That's the pole used in a traditional Spanish or Portugese riding where the rider plants the pole and the horse pivots around it. I have dreams of riding her, no hands, doing flying changes around the pole, doing figure 8s...

And Steve rode her, she was good until the canter, and then showed him where the project is, particularly going right. But I'm confident that with consistent work and going back to some of the basics, she'll learn how to do it and give up all her protesting.