August 4 - Gidget comes home

Went over to Jason's tonight to get Gidget. She is doing really well. She has about 21 rides on her. Jason rode her around for a bit and then we switched saddles and I got on. Jason, being the trainer (LOL), was a lot more comfortable and had her trotting and loping. Me, on the other hand, just walked. But I did get her to back up about 8 steps...Jason said she hadn't done more than one or two for him and Dan. So I was very happy.



he said she very level headed...and shouldn't take much to finish out. Told me to do lots of BIG trail rides with her. I think I will stick to the arena for a while yet. LOL

Getting her into the trailer though was the same as it was to get her to his place. He didn't put up with it for very long and did the "let's lunge really hard and you will just go in". Took him about 20 minutes of hard lunging on the lead rope and lots of "force" to get her in the first time...and then he did it two more times just to reinforce it. So that is one more thing I need to practice with her.