New Easycare Hi-Tie System

Graham and I installed the long-awaited Easy Care Hi-Tie System.  It was fairly easy to install, but I am glad that we bought the special metal drill bit and had a high-powered drill to use.  Then Poptart got to practice camping at home that very night.

Our conditioning log

Our conditioning log :)  May it be slowly filled with increased distances and speeds !

Poptart practices turning his rider into a Pop Tart!

Poptart has had some time off recently while I have been fighting various colds/flu frown emoticon He did get ridden this past weekend while friends came over for a small playday. He did fantastic in the arena with all the horses playing! He is starting to feel like a 'green' horse rather than a unbroke horse, LOL!
Unfortunately he lived up to his name once again on Monday (he likes to pretend his rider is a cooked PopTart popping out of the toaster -- or saddle) This time he spooked at the teeter totter bridge that he has been over at least one hundred times (including earlier that day!) and decided he needed jump, buck, and run away from it Arabian Style! Our one rein stop was great but alas my reins were too long to prevent the impromptu dismount. I wish I had a picture of him from my view on the ground - he was facing me very intensely and looked like a cow pony bracing against the calf, all the weight on the haunches and his front legs extended and braced. He had the most quizzical expression -- like why are you down on the ground?? On the upside it was much more like a normal green horse spook instead of a kick and run, end up in the ER sort of spook. Improvement, LOL!
And yes we remounted and went back over the teeter-totter bridge several times, perfected the spook and 1-rein stop and finally walked over it like a trained horse again. Oh and all this was after a wonderful riding session with sidepassing, trot figure 8's and a short trail ride up the road... go figure