Monday's Ride!!

Picture of Navajom, our kittens and their Mother

Today I rode Navajo bareback. Since he got his hooves trimmed this morning I decided to take it a bit easy and just walk and maybe trot a bit. Nothing big or anything. We walked down the strip and he balked a little but he did go. We went halfway down and I asked him to stop with my seat and closed hands. He stopped pretty much immediately. But that was going away from hom but still good! Then we turned around and we headed toward home. I didn't go the whole way home but turned around and headed out. Navajo didn't like this too well but he went. Then we turned home and I took him to the big yard. There I walked him around and around because he didn't want to head down the strip. So we did some backing and I got him to move his hindquarters and such. He eventually decided he would rather go forward than do this in his opinion mundane stuff =D We did go down the strip a good ways. I was pretty happy about that although it didn't go as well as expected. Then I headed back to the big yard asked for a stop then got off. Then I got him to do some of the things we did on his back from the ground. I got him to back up, move his hindquarters both ways and move his forquarters both ways. I also did some in hand work by getting him to walk beside me. Navajo is definitely improving in that area!! I gave Rachel a ride then I groomed him and loved on him. Over all it was probably a half an hour to 45 min ride/work session but I didn't do to much with him. I think it went pretty well!!