Training Time

Finally everything is clicking. The weather, my schedule and the horses. I have officially retired from training because I don't have the time or the facilities to be a consistent trainer anymore. I also have a 7 year old horse of my own that isn't much better than green broke because I am always riding someone elses horse. But I digress - yesterday everything was clicking. The weather was fantastic and I had a cancellation of a riding lesson. I was actually able to work three horses yesterday! Now I remember why I love to train. I was able to take my time with each horse and really work on what they needed. It had been about a month since I had worked Val and she picked up right where we had left off. The layoff really helped her attitude. Shiek was a little scattered at first, but soon tuned in to the business at hand. His left stifle still troubles me though. I have worked him lightly the last three days ( suppling/cuing/tuning in 30 minutes on Monday, walk/trot ponying on Tuesday, suppling/long lineing/patience on Wednesday) with lots of hydrotherapy and linament afterwards. He still continues to be sore and refuses to take the left hind lead. I will give him the day off today and pick-up with the conditioning on Friday. The owners are impatient to proceed, but I refuse to ride a sore horse and risk permanent damage and a bad attitude.