#120 - so ground work it is!

It's still busy and wet in my neck of the woods so I have only been having a dressage lesson once a week and doing ground work with Teddy. Even the arena across the road is water logged. He's been a good boy in all ways, so I have been doing the ground work in the front paddock by the roadside as there is evening traffic and it will get him used to the sound of trucks. He has been pretty good, only one truck gave him a fright on Friday but we stuck to it and he worked wonderfully. I have also been training him to run at my side without getting frisky and playing about. I think he's got that one covered as it's easy for him. It's great to know that I keep his attention that way.

Now I am going to arrange to borrow the float and start working him with that. Being an ex polo horse he is used to be trucked in large groups so he needs to learn that float are ok, that only a window is ok and traveling forward is ok. It should be interesting.