this morning - not very exciting. arena very wet and sloshy with hard underneath, and someone had left poles in interesting patterns all over the place (they were there when Monfils arrived) so was never going to do anything exciting, it was as much about take him in there and see what happened ....
what happened was a nice walk, then pole avoidance, than a nice walk, then pole avoidance - rather think pole avoidance was an excuse to fall in sometimes! change rein and same again - 5 minutes or so, no problems - but really between trying to keep the lungeline out of the wet when he fell in and us both avoiding poles, nothing exciting was really going to happen!
the poles have been moved tonight, so it'll be much more usable tomorrow if the weather holds.
anyway, a start.
and he was prevented from rolling when i turned him out by another horse going up to him just after he went down - i wasn't arguing with that, i have to say!
Eventually, going over the poles will be good for him, but with the icky footing and random placement, it was fine for now.
ReplyDeleteGlad you got to work him a bit. Now, if the weather holds and the footing improves, you can start having some fun with your new boy.