Weekend Training

Next bone post, under construction. Our training for the weekend:
Fri. 8/15: Afternoon rain, and Mr. Nob awol Fri. night his unseemly skirt chasing. I'm sure she's cute. Not. This being a "fast" day we went riderless as fast as slippery conditions allowed--5 x 2f in :14s-15s, nice conditioning workout for both.
Sat. 8/16: Art: 1 mile trot under tack with some gallop. Rod 3/4 mile trot-walk on the pasture track--we're getting this youngster used to being alone in space with our "no risk to the rider" procedures. And, just as I'm thinking pulling the wolf teeth may be another old wives tale, Nob reports the youngster throwing his head at the trot due to the teeth. Art has his wolf teeth with zero problems. Could it be that Rod's teething. Time to call in the Vet.
Sun. 8/17: Art: energetic 1.25 mile trot-gallop. We're working with this horse on control at the gallop and getting leads. Good progress. Nob loves the horse. Art had been refusing his left lead at the gallop. But, Nob has trained him now with correct rein work to take either diagnonal at the trot and so Nob can control whether the trot is on the left or right diagnonal--easier said than done with some horses, but this one has a high IQ and picks things up accordingly. Even though Art is right footed in the extreme Nob can get him to motor along at the trot on the left diagnonal, and from there it's but a whip tap to commencing gallop on the left lead. Progress.
Rod: is now traversing about 1/2 of the pasture track. The parts were deer pop out of the woods are next. 1 mile mostly trot. Fast work for both horses tonight.