Follow Lydia Rose’s Training of Indie Post # Two
Indie’s owner came to visit her to see how the training was going. Lydia free lunged her, then lunged her with tack and side reins, then worked her doing Piaffe. Then Lydia brought her at the bleachers and had Kaylee sit on her and pat her rump and move all over with her legs and then Lydia repeated the Piaffe work with Kaylee on Indie’s back. Lydia and Kaylee had already spent time gradually getting her used to a rider just sitting on her. Then I put Indie on a lunge line with Kaylee on her back at the walk. Indie has become attached to Lydia, so she walked ahead of Indie so she would feel secure. We only did a very little so she wouldn’t get too nervous. She was soooo good.
Her owner was pleased and proud of her horse. In the short time that she has been in for training (a little over a month), Indie has gone from a horse with no knowledge of what was expected of her, wild eyed and high strung, to a horse with calm attention and pride in herself and her work. We were so proud of Indie as well.
Indies training is following Book Three, “Backing the Young Horse”.
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