Valley View Ranch Equine Rescue

April 2009

Irina and Shaula's Training Blog

IRISH FIRST RIDER

Irish is a 3 years old Palomino Quarterhorse gelding; he's been to Monty's where he was started with saddle and ground driving, this happened ?? months ago; so yesterday, after some ground work (saddle and long lining driving) I bellied over my sister, my personal assistant; he did good, so we carried on with sitting in the saddle (this time it was me sitting on the saddle and my sister holding him)...he did very good! we just walked him, as first riding day. I can't say that he was relaxed but he was really trying to accept this heavy moving thing on this back! That's was the end of his first rider session! Anyway he didn't buck, rear, or anything! good for me!

But the second day, oh man, he decided that maybe if he would run/ flight as fast as he could, he would probably get rid of this weird thing on his back! But he didn't, luckily! and luckily he didn't buck at all either! Here comes the best part...while travelling left, counterclockwise he had the bad habit to turn the other way (habit that didn't work when working from the ground); so I said to my sister to pay attention when going that direction, but she misunderstood so it just happened! At crazy canter he stopped, spinned 180 degrees and continued canter like crazy the other way! what a shot! I lost both stirrups and I was sure I was gonna fall down! That was a lot of fun (for me) I say now!

Here some pictures!

DIEGO FIRST RIDER

Diego is a 4 years old, Quarter horse cross, he was already started with saddle, but he'd never been ridden before, so after a couple of days of groung driving with long lines, we rode him for the first time; he's the kind of horse that worries about it and gets stiff.

The second day we traveled all the gaits, he was still stiff but he did good! he was more relaxed than the day before! he's such a nice boy!

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MOJAVE'S

When she first got here we didn't know if she was broke or not, so we worked her in the round pen to see how she would do; we put the saddle and the bridle on and she was a good girl about it, after that we worked her on the long lines and she was perfect, ready to ride! so got on her in the round pen and after a couple of days of riding her in the round pen, we introduced to her an other horse and rode her in the arena; now we can ride her in the arena by herself and she's a good girl, she goes just fine! she still need training. She loves to run and go fast! She'll be a perfect jumper or barrel horse! Something funny about her? the first day we rode her in the arena she was so scared of her own shadow!