Sue- How Do You Do at Trail Ride Clinic?

Finally the long awaited trail ride clinic was here. It was postponed for bad weather nearly a month ago and the wait was fretting. Is Sue ready to ride with other horses out in the open? We spent the morning engaged in getting horses used to scary things outside. Most horses in the clinic weren't scared of anything. Sue and I got to circle with two and then three other horses. When we circled with the three horses, she became noticiably more relaxed. However, when we were circling with two…

Sue- How Do You Do with New Horse Friends?

Sue and I attended a Problem Horse clinic. It was a nice day and we were outside. We had about 9 horses in the clinic and while there was enough space...it really wasn't enough space for SUE, until.. Jenny selected three horses that had varying degrees of unconfidence. We were told to have our horses be as close as possible and play the games. We circled the horses with the humans standing back to back. We didn't pass the rope, we just kept our own horse. At first we trotted…