Whisper VS Trainer

At Amazing Grace, Erin rode Whisper a few times for me as I worked through some dangerous bolting. From her I learned ground driving/long lining and the circles to slow her without throwing her off balance too badly.

Katie worked Whisper today and gave me more perspective, I have a riding lesson set-up with her on Whisper starting next week and for the foreseeable future. Whisper was a little nutty, she charged through the gate just leaving the barn to go up to the ring a dozen times before she finally walked like a polite horse, then proceeded to back up the hill to the ring.

Katie started by longing her.

Then she took her for a ride.

Her impressions are that Whisper is a difficult horse, no sugar coating that. She also feels that Whisper was trained and raced for so long that it is unlikely now that she will ever change.

In a way, that's a relief. That mountain of a problem I've been scaling and slipping, and scaling again, isn't possible to surmount. It is her. She's a permanent 2 year-old brain in a 10 year-old body. We'll just see what we can do with it.