As you can see, Derby is getting much calmer as we work her daily and just focus on her being quiet. My main goal is to keep Jess patient so that we don't lose our progress with her. In the beginning, Derby was so reactive that we would ask her to walk 2 steps and then we would stop and let her relax. Just those 2 steps would wire her, so stopping her and waiting till we saw visible signs of relaxing was critical. Once she understood, progress speeded up.
Lisa has met some resistance with Jack. He does not like to bend to the right. He had been coming along fairly well, and then he rebelled. So, we put him in the round pen with side reins the last few days, and let him argue with himself.
Jess hooked Ramola and started driving her. Ramola has been with us a month thus far. She is a quiet mare with not a lot of spook in her. Her biggest challenge is being willing to work.
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