Yesterday was perfect weather for a nice ride outside. So after we tended to Navi in the morning and did our errands we caught Pixie and Willow for a relaxing ride. The girls were super excited to leave the arena and get moving out. I love it when they enjoy the rides as much as we do. We ended up riding for a hour or so. The girls were perfect! After riding we supplemented them and Jess. Then it was already time for a late lunch.
After lunch it was time to get Navi back out for exercise and some feet handling. Our first order of business with her is to get her really really long feet trimmed. I had handled her front feet, but not back feet yet. So I started with a rope. Asking her to picked up all four feet with the rope...success! Not one kick out! After that I decided to just pick them all up once before we called it a day. Success again! She let me picked up each foot without fuss. I am so grateful since the farrier with be here on the 8th and she has to have them trimmed. We will spend the next week making sure she is more than ready so there won't be any issues hopefully.
Along with feet handling we are starting work on flexing and giving to pressure. So we started asking for right and left flexing and not leaning. She picked up on it right away and we ended on a great note!! I don't expect all training to go this well, but so far we are off to a good start!
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