About a month ago I started to ride a slightly over weight Draft Cross called Sammy. Sammy was a meat truck save, due to Ruth and her big heart. In the short time we have been teamed up he has proven to be a very smart horse, taking to English riding like a duck to water. His past is western style riding, being a pack horse and having his tail broken due to nothing more then human stupidity. As the old saying goes "99% of the horses problems, is the rider", I wouldn't call him a problem horse but, I would call him confused and mis-understood.
This is the start of Sammy schooling with equitation science. Making the scary not so scary, training the horse in clear simple requests. This is the start of the new Sammy, the slightly thinner Sammy to be Peppermint Swirl the eventer. At the end of this Month, he moves 5 minutes from home and weekly up dates will begin.
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