EQUESTRIAN:
The work with y friend's 4yo warmblood Farao is going very well.
My first ride May 11 is on the video above and the owner is riding him on May 23 on the other video.
Farao is one of the few horses I have come across that does not need correction and can begin his education straight away.
The only thing that was an issue was that Farao wants to look at things a lot and then rush off forward. To make him safer I tried to address it straight away. I yelled and slapped his ears every time he took off and now after 4 weeks it is almost gone. He is a very cool minded and confident horse so he handled it well. I believe that normlly they grow out of running off more or less anyway.
Farao is still looking at things but since he stays on the track he is asked to be on and he keeps the same speed, I allow him to accellerate slightly and "half" look at things when he wants to.
Farao actually did his first clean flying change yesterday. I have tried them a couple of times per week and only got lazy-disuniting-too late back-changes, until yesterday.
We have also jumped him over low jumps succesfully, until he saw a small gate jump with strange colouring. After standing by the jump for a while he cleared it at the next attempt.
Farao is by the Westphaler stallion "Farwell" and his mother "Fine Dame" is a Hannoveraner by the stallion Fabriano.
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