Still Percolating

Closing out another day without any time to get back to conventional training. Things have been crazy as all the business forgotten during the holidays is now right back at us. I'll post what we did today, and am happy to report, Nob has now completed shoeing 6 feet out of 16, and, hope to make it 8 tomorrow before the weather blows in.

1/8/07 10 min. snappy riderless 3f gallop heats. Tack work
1/9/07 5 x 1 f riderless breeze at 90% speed. Tack work.
1/10/07 First day of two between breezing in Burch training, and trainer per Burch, deems it appropriate to rest. The horse maybe is a little frazzled from the training, and, i'm tempted to give him two days, but, we'll see tomorrow. The tack work was eventful in the 30 mph wind. The neighbor came over to lead the horse and Nob bravely got up. The horse was doing just fine despite our fears. The last two days are really Nob's first extended stuff riding the horse, and he, of course, proceeded to complain. This time it is that the stirrup leather's are too short. The complaint is legit, but we gave Nob a hard time even while noting his knobby chin almost on his knobby knees. Then, to top it off, Nob panicks instead of the horse. Nob called it after about 7 min, saying there's too much "risk"(with the wind). As we were questioning Nob's manhood he did say the horse today handled the bit pretty well.