Making progress

We had 3 more schooling rides with Gussie and Ice. Ice is really progressing, she is  loping well under saddle, holding the lope and always picking up the correct lead. Gussie we are still working on her holding her hind lead to the right. She gets a little frustrated and starts bulling into pressure instead of moving away from it, so it's a work in progress.
Yesterday I hauled Mesa with Gussie, it was her first trailer ride and she did just awesome! I loaded Gussie first and closed the divider, then Mesa and she pretty much hopped right in once she checked it out. It's only a few minutes to haul to the local arena so that was a good first experience. Once there she unloaded well, we backed her out and this is where those lessons as a baby on trailer loading came in handy, she had no problem with backing out.
Shayla saddled up Rose and we went down the road to my sister's property and rode through that,

then back  down the road to the arena where Shayla ponied her around for her first time in an arena.

So dusty! Through the whole experience of loading, hauling and seeing new places, Mesa did super! I'm pretty proud of this filly, and her new owner is too!

We have also been taking Drifter out on walks. He has to learn some manners, and taking him for walks is a good way to work on keeping him focused on his handler and not having the distraction of the mare herd. Because he is so easy going it is important to not get slack in assuming he will always be good- it's almost spring and those boy hormones will kick in! I'm happy to say he takes correction well and learns quickly. Because he is already a big boy!

Riding day 17,18,19,&20