Merrigan at Balance in Motion

TWENTY THREE AND A BIT HOURS.

Olga De Polga - rising 4. She's starting to look less gauky at last but has a lot of growing still to do.

Olga had her very first proper "training" session today where we walked round my grass arena together. She really didn't know why she had to do that and after 2 circuits had had enough, she spent the rest of the (less than 10 minutes) chewing on and playing with the clip. (Three year olds can be very mouthy).
She didn't throw her toys out of the pram which she is quite expert at. Bonus.

She's growing up nicely but a late foal so we will just play at the tactical game of making it all her idea for this year. We will play with some obstacles once she has mastered some directional cues.

I often wonder at the many many 3 year olds who are going through their ridden gradings or being prepared for the youngstock jump classes while mine is chewing on string and spending 23 hours and 50 minutes of every day being a baby horse.

Captions under the pics.

River found that she could be amazingly clever today. 😁

It's always interesting asking a young horse to do a bit of problem solving. Can't go left, can't go right. Hmm, up at the front then. ✅

In a day or two it will be her favourite party trick.

Mindful Equine Training - developing proprioception.

I love the view from up here.