groupy horses

[Eenergonzillen@aol.com]

Hello ridecampers...I hope you all got to ride today....hopefully the rain 
has taken a break in your neck of the woods.  It has here (though the rain is 
scheduled to return tomorrow).  anyways, I went for a ride today on 
MY(!!!!!!)  horse.  I went with her two best friends (and siblings--Desire 
and Seeker) and one other "outsider" horse.  The "outsider" (aka Sinbad) has 
trouble when horses leave him or he has to go in back.  Actually, it is a 
good exercise for all of the horses . So what we did was started out in a 
group, then one person held back and the others went on.  Then, someone else 
turned around and went in the opposite direction, past the first horse.  
Then, that horse would be in back.  It is also good because they don't just 
have to be in back, but they also have to go in the opposite direction.  We 
did this at a walk for a while and then moved it into a trot (with less 
turning and more changing positions).  This worked very well...does anyone 
else have any methods of getting horses used to this type of thing.  I could 
be more specific on what we did...but I would have to describe the whole 
ride....and you don't want to read about that, right???
let me know
thanks
-Renee and her new bud Soul's Serenade
rider: 25 lifetime miles...horse: 25 lifetime miles
*horse and rider got their miles at different rides on different days
:-)