Yndi is about the same. The vet comes week after next to take more xrays.
Pepper and I are going to a Bryan Neubert clinic in Tracy, CA Bryan grew up a stone's throw from Bill and Tom Dorrance and learned a lot from them. He has driving experience from driving his dad's farm horses.
I talked to Tracy, the clinic host, more than a month ago. When I signed up, I thought the Horsemanship part of the clinic was unmounted. Its really hard for driving horses to do mounted group clinics where responsiveness to weight and leg aids is important and lateral work is expected. Tracy assured me that I would be included and Bryan would work with me. Sh
e encouraged me to call Bryan personally, so I did.
Bryan was really nice and really wanted to talk in depth about Pepper's problems. She has a little bit of trouble loading in the trailer, She has discovered the exact second when she can easily evade me and go eat grass. In the absence of food, she's fine. Absence of food is a rare occurrence for the pony who eats anything.
Trying to get down to nitty gritty problems is hard. Pepper is a pretty good pony, just a little mysterious to me. The wheels are turning, I just cant see which direction.
Both he and Tracy told me to BRING THE CART. Wow, a midget pulling a cart and those cow horses are going to have a cow! Wait 'til I put the feather boa on the bicycle flag.
She will be, beyond a doubt, the smartest horse there.
The half of the clinic I didn't sign up for is cattle work. I get to see it and am very interested in how that is going to go!
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