i thought a good plan for today - given it's still pretty cold (had to use hot water on the tap!) was introduce Monf to the terrifying sheepfeeder ... so when we went for the, instead of heading back to the yard, we took them into the field with the sheepfeeder......much snorting, not too much prancing (well, none at all - there was a bit of grass and some hay as well) and in due course he walked round it and touched it... and then we came back, via more grass. Charlie, of course, was ahead of us leading the way....
whether, next time we hack, he remembers that the sheepfeeder he sees from the track is the sheepfeeder he touched this week, i don't know, but certainly he shouldn't be quite as terrified as he was last sunday!
If there was hay there, it just might have worked. As a matter of fact, you might have to work on keeping him away from sheep feeders from now on. *G* (Depends on how much of a "stomach horse" he is. My Tucker is, but Toby is not...so TB's are not all alike.)
ReplyDeleteWishing you warming weather...again.