Aww soo nice! I love my ex racer aswell she's great but is very more one to one type of horse.
Ps where is your pink saddle cloth from it looks great! Lol
hehe
The only thing he does seem to register is that I sit in canter - he flashes his ears around at me so clearly finds this quite odd! And he flicks on and off the bridle of his own accord if you put leg on and keep a good contact with his mouth which isn't something I was expecting!
This is good to hear!
I've just started ambling around hacking out on my 3yr old - he only ran flat four times, has had 7 mths off and has a very busy little mind and a wicked sense of entertaining himself. I had intended leaving him another year but he is proving to be making an absolute nuisance of himself in the field!
He's adapted really well - not remotely bothered by having an English saddle plonked on him nor that my legs are lower down round him where he isn't used to them. He isn't bothered by any traffic - cars, lorries, buses - just finds the farm animals we may pass worthy of snorting at
Oh, and he absolutely refuses to get his feet wet. He will not put his feet in puddles or mud. Forget it. No way! He'd rather try to leap over these horrors or shimmy round - he whipped my stirrup leather off and bashed his stifle on a gate post trying to avoid a muddy puddle!!
He's been a source of utter amusement all winter and I hope he enjoys our summer of just ambling around on hacks under no pressure
Aww sounds a cracker
she's amused me immensly this winter- some good some bad!
And he has a Phantom Lameness - only present if he's ambling about in the arena for 15 minutes or on the lunge for five minutes, regardless of which leg he's on!! Once he's out and about though it's suddenly, miraculously gone! Hahaha!! 
