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Our new series of articles featuring Dew Drop Inn Farm's, Abbey Williams.

Abbey does training for Western Pleasure, Trail, Hunter Pleasure driving and jumping. She has a quiet and calm training method with the horses comfort being of upmost importance.

Abbey is currently taking reservations and bringing in horses to train that are starting from scratch or ones that have some training already behind them. In this series Abbey will show us the training of NT Scarlets Legacy. The third chapter of the journal will show the

This is the fourth article in Abbeys training journal.

IN the previous article I had introduced Legacy to the big ring, he did quite well, although I think I found out his biggest fear, water!!! We worked and got through it, and we were also able to walk and trot around without
too much distraction. For part four we are back in the sand ring where we will finish most of our training, although I will eventually take him outside the ring to walk around the farm, but for now, we are in the ring.

In the fourth part of this series we work on similar things like walking, trotting, some bending, and trying to get him on the bit, and really listening to my commands, working off my leg, and of course, the WATER PUDDLE!!!
These things take repetition, and practice makes perfect, that I believe is so true, especially with horses. Some new things I introduce to him in this series are ground poles to walk and trot over, also a couple little cross rails,
cones to weave in and out of, and I also canter him for the first time!! I have given Legacy lots of things to do out here to keep him interested and it just also lets him have a little fun while he is learning. We had a small bulk
at the water puddle, but he retained what he had learned in the previous session and didn't take him near as long to get him in the water. I think Legacy actually enjoyed jumping over the little cross rails, it also gave me a way
to introduce him into the canter without much of a fuss. We also did get our canter leads in both directions, only for a few strides, but he did it. I used the ground poles to help him round his back some, and also get some
regularity at the trot. Boy did I ever keep him busy!!!! At the end of the session, he had done everything I had asked of him, including the water!! He is a very good boy and a pleasure to work with.

As you can see..... MUD/WATER PUDDLES are no longer a worry of his.

 

Part one, the journey begins

Part two, time to mount up and ride

Part three, the sand ring

Part four

Part five (coming soon!)

 

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