Jayzee
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So happy I have now found this thread! She is just gorgeous and Ludo too. I can't wait to see all the future updates!
Well.
I have just ridden her.
She has been here thirteen days. She's been ridden for ten of those, starting at five minutes and working up to fifteen this afternoon.
She didn't need the steps moved to get on her. I'm doing the (short) girth up while on her. She is working on the track. She has all the transitions between halt, walk, trot and canter. Her down aid is a slight squeeze of the knees, even from canter to trot. She does leg yield and a square halt. She changes bend from inside leg into outside hand.
This is simply astounding. I don't know how much is due to her being Spanish and how much to the fact that she is already seven. I just know I've never known a horse learn like it.
That's a Spanish horse for ya.I've backed a fair few over the years, she is something else entirely.
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So true.Exactly. That is a Spanish horse.
But, you must be careful, they really are too smart ?
Exactly. That is a Spanish horse.
But, you must be careful, they really are too smart ?
So true.
Memories like elephants as well....
The one thing she hasn't yet learned is to put herself in her box to eat her breakfast. If I catch Ludo, she doesn't follow, she goes and tries to put herself into the barn. That's where she goes after she's had breakfast/been ridden. Is she so clever that she knows that's where she's going to end up eventually, and thinks she might as well go straight there?
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Your post made me laugh CC. I say '' in your house'' and he knows exactly what I mean but because he is sneaky greedy as well as smart, he'll dawdle a bit in the general direction just when he's feeling a bit rebellious and then i'll say '' in your house...now'' and those legs start flying all over the place as he hustles his arse back properly . He is so funny and extremely naughty. No malice in him at all but everything is a game to him outside of ' work ' . You can play chase with him for hours ( if I had the energy ) He loves it and tries to hide behind trees thinking you can't see him.YES. Mine remembers EVERYTHING. I was just discussing this "struggle" with a friend. She suggested an exercise and I told her it probably wouldn't work with this horse because his memory is too good ? she agreed. I really have to ride his brain, not his body.
Ah, that could be it! ?
I've taught mine the command of "box" and he goes in when I snap my fingers and point to it. The stallion I used to ride and his stallion friend knew this command too (had to walk one through the others paddock to get it out). So I don't know if you should associate it with a command? Or if that works in your set-up.
Now, I will say, mine is smart and lazy. So he too might go directly into the barn in an effort to save himself some steps ? hoping that *I'd* be smart enough to feed him in there and save him the extra "work" of going into his box and then the barn. Mayne she's trying to train you. ?
Your post made me laugh CC. I say '' in your house'' and he knows exactly what I mean but because he is sneaky greedy as well as smart, he'll dawdle a bit in the general direction just when he's feeling a bit rebellious and then i'll say '' in your house...now'' and those legs start flying all over the place as he hustles his arse back properly . He is so funny and extremely naughty. No malice in him at all but everything is a game to him outside of ' work ' . You can play chase with him for hours ( if I had the energy ) He loves it and tries to hide behind trees thinking you can't see him.
Hah. The Spanish Shuffle. Love it !"...and those legs start flying all over the place as he hustles his arse back properly." That cracked me up! Too true. I told mine to move into his paddock the other day, and he stood at the gate a moment, and I was like, "as in, GO, as in NOW" commense legs scrambling...err the Spanish Shuffle as I call it, and him moving promptly into his paddock.
Question -
why is Ludo frightened of Aberdeen Angus but not Hereford cattle?
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Doric is very challengingDifferent accents!
Doric is very challenging
Same I used to ride for a lady out in the shire no idea what she was saying most of the time but she was lovely when I didAbsolutely. I lived there for 4 years and it still passes me by sometimes!
First argument today!
I can't walk close to that white guttering you've got just outside the boards there.
You can.
I can't.
Well you're going to.
I won't.
You will.
Oh all right then!
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