Saturday, February 6, 2010

Lightning strike

Does Lightning strike twice in the same location??

I am having so much fun with this horse I can hardly contain myself. He is such a smart young man, and wants to please. He has yet to lean how to trot much, he goes from the stand still to a cantor. As I remember MONK did that when I first started riding him. I am just going to kept riding him and only ask for the trot when I think it is necessary and see how he progresses.

Psuntana is a great barefoot horse, not very big feet though, but very nice feet, nice wide frogs. Half of the time I ride him the gravel roads he only has front boots on. Most of the under saddle conditioning is done barefoot, we have great trails right now, nice and soft and not too muddy.

Psuntana just loves to run, he his a very easy horse to ride, he neck reins wonderfully, so when you are going Mach 1 you can easily direct him to a less rocky path.

If he gets scarred and decides to spin, you can stop him in a nano second, even in a halter. I ride him mostly in a hackamore.

He will do his first 50 in March and am sure he will be more then ready. When the weather starts getting better we will start doing a few 20 mile training rides.

My gut tells me that this little horse could be almost as good as MONK. He is much smaller, so will not have the stride, but so far his recoveries have been great for a green horse. I really really like this horse, he is keeping this old man young.

We will have to wait a few months to see about the lightning strike!!!!


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