Poptart has new soft cotton, homemade, rope hobbles. Rogan tested them out, as I hobbled trained him several years ago, and they worked well. Practiced leading all 4 feet with the hobble (Poptart has been doing this for several weeks with the lead rope and tarp) and then letting the hobble dangle from each leg while he walked. He did great and would easily stop when pressure was applied and would back up too! We are also working towards having the bareback pad 'slip' under his belly (and eventually the saddle sans stirrups) and this evening he accepted the pad completely sideways while he ate dinner and then we unsaddled 3-4 times sliding it under the belly rather than over the back-- a little flinch/nervy the first time, then relaxed the other times! Progress smile emoticon Thank you Karen Chaton for your blog on endurance horse training!
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