Harry is coming along so nicely. We started riding him in a saddle again on Monday. I had been riding him around a bit with halter and lead rope so he could look around since he's always such a curious one.
It was meant to be a calm first day back under saddle but since one of my mom's other lesson horses was acting up, I offered to trade Harry for Wren. The student had a wonderful little walk lesson. Wren is notorious for being hard to put together so it was quite a nice change for her to feel what a proper, constistent connection is.
All the kids thought that he was gorgeous, and he is still quite an impressive guy even for his 28 years.
We had another great little ride on Wednesday. It was nice having a calm one after taking a tumble off our little quarter horse mare. We did a little bit of trot work, and about 5 seconds of canter just to see how it felt and see how push-button he is on his cues.
Eight hours of work then out to ride for a bit tomorrow.
I also want to mention how appreciative I am of the information that Peggy Sue Blair of OK provided about Heristol. It seems that he has a guardian watching from afar who has known him since he came across the lake. We now know that he was imported by Linda Zang, esteemed "O" FEI dressage judge.
More importantly, he has a half-brother who is still alive and kicking all be it with fewer teeth at the ripe age of 30 so we still have a few solid years if we treat our old boy right. He's loving the alfalfa. We had tried the chopped alfalfa with some water like we do with our other old timer (25 year-old Arabian gelding), and we wasn't going for it so we upped the ante. He's also decided that he will only eat his One n' Only if there is nothing else on earth to do. He also prefers dozing under his shade tree or taling to the horses across the fence to munching down grass in his paddock. An easy keeper he is not! No skin off our nose. We'll do what it takes to get him fat and keep him happy.
Cheers!
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