Valiant & Karin

Steven was giving a lesson to Emily on Ella when Karin arrived. She was all enthused over what she had learned at the Midwest Horse Fair last weekend and wanted to try some of the techniques out on one of the boys. Steven was going to work Evan so Karin chose Valiant.

She started free lunging him until he was paying attention, then started carrying around a tarp on her shoulders as she asked him to move away.

Once he was accepting the tarp on her she tied it to Valiant's tail. Now I would have thought there would be fireworks with that but he softened and listened to her trying hard to please.

She said she learned this from watching and attending Guy McClean's clinics at the fair. While she was working Valiant, the shipper came to pick up Izadora. Steven was good enough to get her out of the paddock and give her a quick groom. The truck and trailer were really nice. The trailer was hauling 3 other horse and Izadora got her own box stall.

Mark wanted to start moving manure out of the paddocks before the predicted rain. The two of us worked until dark.

We put off our trip to the fellowship hall but will have to go in the morning to put down the carpet protector, take the now cleaned coolers and my dessert.