by way of a small update, i have managed to ride a few times with other horses and the first couple times were not pleasant but Goof is now chilling his beans and is pretty reliable with his *friends* around him so next step is to introduce strange horses he doesnt know, and then go off and do an ar...

i am lucky as my cross tie area has a solid wall behind it so they tend to think forward and never go back against the ties. if i DID have a tricky one i would loop a long rope/lunge line through the tie and just gradually get them used to standing central in the ties. Praise and time will cure this...

October goal is to get Goof used to working around other horses so we can do some arena hires and group work over winter, ready for 2016 4yo classes.

He is good, but being entire has the attention span of a toddler gnat, so needs to get on and make other horses normal