well maries playday went really well

did a fair bit of friendly game around his hind quarters and spent a good amount of time loading and unloading him.

upon unloading him I asked him to come down one step at a time and he did this really well gave plenty of time for him to think and become comfortable.

vinur is also becoming happier at travelling, he's licking and chewing alot more now when we are moving, however when the road gets bumpy he freezes up. planning to get and fit a camera soon so that I can see what hes doing as i'm driving (obviously as and when its safe to do so) .

when i drove charlie he would almost never crash into the sides whereas vinur did it alot, but he's learning to be more stable in the back, but it still scares me from time to time. am trying to think abut how i make it easier for him but its more down to him rather than my driving style.

well recentlky have been riding a young driving horse as well as vinur, tis good to see the two horses interact as they both try to use the same domination tactics on each other.

progressing with things well, unfortunately little time to write in blog

doing plently of zone 5 work.

did give him a bath recently and although he wasnt too happy, he didn't hate it as much as he has done, and i think towards the end he was almost starting to like it.

having a few problems with itchyness in mane and tail so am abit worried about that, but have a few ideas. to help.

hoping to have a good time at maries this weekend,

right i know that i need to write about sweden and i will soon, but i wanted to write about some things since then.

have watched a dvd called visible horse and found that to be very interesting and has made me think about a few things, i now stand back and look at vinur in a differetn way now.

another was pilataes for riders, with was extremely difficult and damn near killed me but hopefully with time and practice ill be able to do more than just the warm up.

have spent a lot of time finisheing off my trailer for its sale and so havent done much with vinur but i did playu with him yesturday, made a ring out of a rope and whilst crouched i attempted to put him in it. took a while but we managed to get about there (had 3 out of 4 hooves) gave him lots of thinking time, which helped, also worked on standing on a piece of wood (just back feet), but it became very difficult for him so i was happy with him just standing very close to it.

despreatly looking forward to teh horsenality / personality report to re-do vinurs horsenality and use this new material to look at things in a new light.

am hopeing to spend a session of more extreme friendly game with vinur to hopefully help him become a little happier with zones 4 / 5