Weeks worth of play days

I haven't been good about posting every time we play.

So i signed up for the Northland games on 10th April.
I printed out the list of games and armed with them we went out to see what we could do.

Circle Game
3 full circles at a trot and change of direction.
Buzz we need to work on the send and hindquarter disengage.
Dottie goes out like a freight train and sometimes bucks and kicks its not dirty just exuberant.

I thought it would be good to see what both horses
could do.

We then played trust me game and as I could not remember if i had exposed Dottie to an umbrella. No worries there.  Buzz was a little hipped up coming in from the paddock and at first snorted at this unusual object in the paddock but otherwise no problems there either.

Back Up
They both back up quite nicely but it could be a bit more enthusiastic.  So i will make it a 7 day program.
Put Buzz behind the pole before asking him forward and then backup.  Set yourself up for success.

Dottie and i were mucking around and i was asking her to do circles around me while i was sitting in a chair. She kept stopping behind me and then she put her head on my shoulder.  It was so funny i took a photo.

During the week we.....

We played in Kathy's roundpen at Liberty.  At first Buzz was very unsure of the digger next door so i just walked around and asked him to follow me.  Once he was comfortable we walked in unison he stopped when i stopped walked when i asked him to and backed up one step before walking on.  Its an awesome feeling when you are in harmony with your equine partner.  We did some circle and fig. 8 i quit when while it was still good although as i knew he stops trotting after he rounds the barrels.  Not sure what to do about that?

Also played with the float/trailer.  Just put them on with no pressure to go anywhere or do anything.  Interestingly a couple of day later when i did want to go somewhere Buzz was a quivering bowl of jelly but i decided to put him on and go anyway as i know he is ok as long as i dont want to go anywhere.  Interesting when i am trimming his feet i pick up the foot sometimes when i then go to pick up the rasp he will pull his foot away.  Move closer, stay longer. Hummmmmm.

Paste wormed them today and trimmed feet.