Working with the boyz

Since Rio is now up for sale, and has had the last 4 months off while Shayla is in California, I figured I'd better dust the cobwebs off him and see how he is after that long break. I decided to haul to the local arena, and to take Kai with me so I could (finally) start working with him.
Both boys loaded in the trailer with no hesitation, although I must say Rio barely fits in there now, with the saddle on the saddle horn is only inches from the roof!
I worked Rio first, just tied the reins up and sent him around. He did well except for one thing, he wanted to turn into the fence instead of an inside turn as you can see in this video.



Of course I worked on that and got him facing up. I climbed on and it was just like he had been ridden yesterday, I think he actually enjoys being ridden and I bet he was happy to get off the farm and do something different. My niece was with me so I let her take some photos

*Guess I should have rolled my pant legs down!* Rio has such a lovely natural frame and huge stride.

Changing direction

Love that golden tail.

Good boy Rio, nice and relaxed. In fact, he was so good I let Bridget climb up on him and I led her around, wish I could share the videos of that! 

Shayla has had several responses to her ads for Rio, and we are just waiting to see who will end up with this big gentle horse. 

Then I worked Kai, just a short session. Basically I just wanted to see how he would react to being saddled and moving out saddled up. He was easy to saddle, and didn't give me any trouble. I ran out of battery on my camera, so Bridget took a little video with her iphone- excuse the finger at around 30 seconds on the video.

I plan on working them both again later today and then this weekend I'll be heading to Fernie for a wedding, so they'll get the wekend off. It was a lot of fun working with these two brothers!