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Saturday, January 2, 2010

New Kid on the Block


I have a new horse :) Storm is a six-year-old purebred Arabian, although her papers have been lost along the way. She's done some barrel racing, endurance riding, and elementary jumping. She's SUPER sensitive; a phase 2 pressure on her barrel causes her to step over with no Parelli training at all. I'm anxious to play with her but she's a shy girl (her previous owner warned me that she would be for a couple of months). She lets me come up to her, sometimes, but too much pressure, and she leaves. We'll go slowly. I also have the problem of Abbey being extremely jealous of her, so if no one's around to distract her she gets between me and Storm and drives her off. If I can get a halter on her this week (it's been ridiculously cold for doing anything serious), I hope to take her into the back field and close the gate, and then do some basic undemanding time to see where we are. Ab's going to need some extra attention, too.

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