June 5, 2011 - Outside ride

I decided to work with Rory outside in the sand ring today.  He was a little distracted by the sights, and pulled out on the circles, at times quite hard.  I stopped him and snapped the longeline to both the halter ring and the inside bit ring to get a little extra attention.  Afterwards Rory was much better and he cantered a few times too.  I ended up longeing a little longer than usual, so I cut my ride a bit shorter.

Rory was good.  He trotted a bit, but was a little reluctant to trot for very long.  I thought maybe the extra longeing tired him out a bit.  He did listen to my aids and went forward when asked.  I got lucky and Rory's buddies stayed in the shelter while I was riding.  The tractor was at work, but Rory was completely unconcerned as it went back and forth.