Lots and lots of leading today. He's really starting to trust me, although he won't walk with me at his shoulder. We'll work there. I feel like I'm his savior when Christina messes up, and for some reason, he's harsher with Christina when she messes up than when I do. We've both made approximately the same mistake and yet he wouldn't come near her the rest of the hour when she messed up. Why is that?
I also want to know why he'll let us do whatever we want with him when we have a hold of the lead rope, but we can't get a hold of the lead rope otherwise. He has the strangest pet peeves of any horse I've ever met.
Training is so multi-dimensional. I mean, there's the actual training part, the physical part. Then you have the planning part, which, I'll be honest, isn't that important with this horse, in my opinion. I can't plan things with him, and I'm okay with that. We're slightly left of center as it is anyway. Finally you have that part of him that just doesn't shake him, ever. He's always on my mind, I'm always trying to figure him out. Its a full-time job. I like it, and I wish I had talent for it.
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