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Echo Update
Feb. 8th, 2005 06:41 pmWhile waiting for the [highly annoying] query to process on the other computer (and since this is after hours anyway), I figure it is time to update y'all on Echo. I got to GoBarn on Sunday (last week was snowed out) and get to see Peter work with Echo.
Echo is doing WONDERFULLY. Her trot in just a few weeks has gotten more powerful. She is metronome steady (woot!), stepping under herself and really pushing off. I only get to see her every week or so (schedule and timing at the barn ... she isn't ready to be in the ring with a lesson going on yet) so I can really see the improvement.
Brag alert
Babycakes walks like no one's business. I have long legs and a fairly long natural stride (I shorten it a LOT to dance). I was at full extension and Very glad that I was on the inside of the corners to give me a fighting chance to keep up with her.
She is very willing to work with Peter, stays fairly focused on her job (though, like her dam, she does like to sightsee as well). She calms down amazingly fast when something goes 'wrong' as long as Peter says she is cool, she knows she is cool. She is very focused on vocal commands of her handler so when I was walking her, I just had to quietly say 'ho' and she would stop. No having to yell at her or snap her face like so many horses I have known in the past.
She is starting to sometimes lift her withers a bit (not for long but she is starting to do it) which is wonderful to see. I admit that I am not as good at detecting back swing but she seemed very relaxed about her job. She is also starting to visibly put on some nice muscling (more in front than in back at the moment but that will change with time and work).
In short she is a wonderfully tempered, beautiful, friendly, SOUND mare who is likely to actually be ready for under saddle work by mid-March if everything goes according to plan.
End brag
Dede says that I will be lunged for about a month when I start then about a month off-lunge before I am ready to start working with Ms. Echo.
Echo is doing WONDERFULLY. Her trot in just a few weeks has gotten more powerful. She is metronome steady (woot!), stepping under herself and really pushing off. I only get to see her every week or so (schedule and timing at the barn ... she isn't ready to be in the ring with a lesson going on yet) so I can really see the improvement.
Brag alert
Babycakes walks like no one's business. I have long legs and a fairly long natural stride (I shorten it a LOT to dance). I was at full extension and Very glad that I was on the inside of the corners to give me a fighting chance to keep up with her.
She is very willing to work with Peter, stays fairly focused on her job (though, like her dam, she does like to sightsee as well). She calms down amazingly fast when something goes 'wrong' as long as Peter says she is cool, she knows she is cool. She is very focused on vocal commands of her handler so when I was walking her, I just had to quietly say 'ho' and she would stop. No having to yell at her or snap her face like so many horses I have known in the past.
She is starting to sometimes lift her withers a bit (not for long but she is starting to do it) which is wonderful to see. I admit that I am not as good at detecting back swing but she seemed very relaxed about her job. She is also starting to visibly put on some nice muscling (more in front than in back at the moment but that will change with time and work).
In short she is a wonderfully tempered, beautiful, friendly, SOUND mare who is likely to actually be ready for under saddle work by mid-March if everything goes according to plan.
End brag
Dede says that I will be lunged for about a month when I start then about a month off-lunge before I am ready to start working with Ms. Echo.