HORSE TAILS

We had a weekend of long reining this weekend. Sara has been running wild for so long now I thought it best to go back to basics for a while. Not only does it get her back in the way of working it helps me to rebuild my relationship with her.
Saturday was warm but very windy,  possibly not the best day to start working with her. The initial plan was to take her into the cattle shed to tack up and let her see the two horses being kept in there over winter however as they were doing things with the cows that didn't seem such a great idea so we got ready by the gate. As we set off a we scared a flock of birds which startled her somewhat but she soon settled to doing circles and figures of eight at the walk with frequent halts thrown in for good measure. We finished off with a little bit of trotting on both reins and then finished
 on a good note before she got too excited.
On Sunday we worked for a bit longer and put in more trotting interspersed with circuits round the cattle shed. By the time we finished she had lowered her head and settled into a nice easy rhythm. She was quite tired as well.

(The video was taken earlier in the year before I fell off her and the quality of the long reining suffered through trying to hold the camera at the same time. It shows what a good girl she is most of the time that she let me get away with it! )