Wednesday's Ride!

Last night I did ride Beauty again. She did really well up until the time I decided since we are on a field lane it would be a good time to work with neck reining =) Her right side is her worst side for anything I am noticing so that is the side we had to fight with..anyway. I asked her to turn right and she decided she had had enough of this (I had been doing it for a little bit before and she was doing pretty good but she was just getting the hang of it and she decided she is tired of it and she is not going to do what I want..just like she did with the round penning!) so she turned the opposite way (left) and went in a circle and she realized that wasn't getting me to stop telling her what to do so she figured fine she won't let me go where I want I will just stand still. She stopped and decided I am not stepping one step forward. I popped her with the crop on her behind a few times and then she went forward but she still fought (sp). When she finally did as I asked I gave her a reward by giving her a little break and didn't ask her to neck rein unless I needed to turn a certain way. Then when we got back to Sharon's house I asked her to turn right again and this time she really was like I am not doing this. Sharon and I both said we have to work with this here and now and it won't hurt her any to know that just cause we come back to the barn doesn't mean that we just go into the barn and we don't have to work sometimes. Anyway I got her turned and she walked for a bit till I asked her to turn past the barn (Sharon's driveway goes off the road in her lane a bit then goes in a circle around her house and in front of the barn so it makes it nice for something like this) and she didn't go and walked eveywhere but turning right. Then when we got close to her stall (which is outside more of a run in) she decided she is not going one step forward and I told her to go and she didn't so I popped the whip and that didn't help. She got mad enough she reared. I stayed on and once she was on the ground again I told her to turn..She did go but it took quite a bit of telling her to do it. She is one stubborn horse!! So we did a few more circles around the barn and she was doing better and I told her to turn right again (her left side she did really good with and we didn't have much of a problem at all) and she kept walking straight and she tried to walk into the fence. She tried to walk as close to the fence as possible to scrape my leg up but I still made her turn. We did a few more rounds and I could tell the more we did it the easier she was doing it without thinking much. We did one full round around the house and she didn't think one bit about turning so we stopped on a good note. She is quite the handful I must say! I was thinking wow she is doing so great you know but I had to think the other night (Tuesday) that she is doing so good wonder if she is going to act dumb again one of these days and yesterday was her day. Makes me wonder how she will do Friday. Anyway that was my day with Beauty. She is one stubborn spoiled brat..You wouldn't know it till you tell her she has to do something and she might not mind it for a while but then she decides she doesn't want to do it then then the stubborn spoiled brat appears =D