06/07/2022
You can't work after a certain schema with all horses. Each horse needs to be worked more or less differently than others. 🦄
This gelding has a very sceptical personality, he is sceptical towards new things and his first reaction is always "NOPE, I don't want this" and he makes it very clear. 🙅♀️
Yet he learns very fast, once he understands, that what we ask of him is not going to harm him.
Most horses I mount in the arena already, so they are used to the environment.
This little KWPNxFriesianxPRE gelding however was very strong and did not give me the opportunity to mount him in a bigger arena, even after a lot of preparation from the ground.
So I decided to try it inside a box with him.
The first attempt was less smoothly than what is seen in the video, he was of course confused by the situation and running a little faster on the circle I steered him on.
But after repeating 2-3 times, he already understood that I want nothing evil and accepted it!
It is wonderful to see how he chews and thinks through the whole process. That's also why I keep important sessions like these short, as horses cannot actively focus for much longer than 20min.
