13/03/2026
Out and about in long reins for this little cobbie.
As he has never been away from his herd at home, I have slowly introduced long reining only short distances from home base, on the property, so I can stretch his comfort zone a little at a time.
This avoids blowing his mind and creating a life long problem. Instead, I've been building his confidence .... he goes away, he comes back, a little further each time, all while thinking rather than getting stressed. I constantly monitored his behaviour to make sure he was being challenged, but not putting him in a situation where he was overly anxious.
This week was his first time off the property, and he was completely out of sight of his herd. He acted like he had done this a million times already. Confident and cruisy. Just the way I like it to be for a first experience.
~ Sacha
