Great Training Day Yesterday!

[Bugle]

Had a fantastic day working with Midnight yesterday. Midnight has come on leaps and bounds from when he arrived with us.


He has done fantastically well learning some tricks, and working at liberty. We went over laying down on command, and he did it first time! So proud of him.


I have now started training him to be used as my mounted archery horse. He did fantastic with the noise of the bow yesterday, and I am so so so happy.


Here is a photo of him from a couple days ago (he is slightly wet in the photo as I gave him a quick spray off after training.


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Tomorrow I plan on working on riding him without reins, we shall see how he does, he tends to be quiet rein dependent! Wish me luck!

[kaoskat]

Congrats on your progress! And he is just gorgeous!

[Bugle]

Thank you kaoskat! He is probably one of my biggest triumphs as far as training goes, when we first got him, I had to ride another horse and lasso him to get anywhere near being able to put a halter on him; (Server abuse case prior to him arriving at our farm).

Now I give lessons on him, he listens so intensely to me and we are so bonded now (Too bonded in some peoples eyes). But if I give him the signal to listen, you could be the best rider in the world, and unless I instructed him to do something, he wouldn't move an inch, no matter how much you tried.

(One of the reasons I like him as a lesson horse/confidence giver, I know he will never burst out at someone (Well never say never I don't want to jinx it!); but I can instruct him with vocal commands. Which is bloody useful when you have a rider get nervous and start clutching with their feet! A lot of horses would go into a full gallop, but not our Nighty, he wont react unless he checks with me first!)

[Eviecorn]

So glad to hear that he's doing well with his training! 

[melodys_angel]

im happy to hear that things are going soo well^^