Time for Education

So, remember that verdict that he was not a suitable horse for me? Guess what, it was bang on.

He freaked out when you tied him up, he fought the bit, he could barely trot, cantering was out of the question, wouldn’t lung…..yep, it was a mess.

At the time our farrier was a western trainer. After a horrible attempt at trimming his feet it was decided that, the next day, Traveller would go for a month (at least) of training.

The next week we went out to visit him/see how it was going.

Without knowing all that much myself, I thought it was looking good. He could tie for the most part, walk and trot with some canter thrown in….his head was down in a nice frame (remember how I said I didn’t know much?) and it looked like it was going well.

I slightly questioned that bit  he had him going in, but he said that the raspberries in the corners of his mouth were a good thing…made him think. Hmmm, okay.

Two months later he was ready to come home a seemingly more solid equine citizen with better basics…..good?