Plastic bags......

As it was pretty soggy this weekend, instead of riding we did some bag-on-a-stick practise. Something I do with all of my horses.......

Hollie's little Polo is very nervous of sticks and unusual things in general (he was terrified of the measuring stick the other week) so I showed her some stuff to do with him. He was prepared to sniff it but it wasn't allowed to get out of his field of binocular vision at first......

But we kept at it, kept it on his side until he stopped moving and immediately removed it when he did. He finally realised it wasn't going to hurt him, but he was actually trembling to start with......

Ebony was having a good look at all this going on so I flicked it at her and......she tried to eat it!! Ruby not so keen....but nowhere near as scared as Polo.

The ultimate test though was Sorcier who can't cope with any sort of crop or whip anywhere near him, so I ignored him and played with it with Kinna and becasue she didn't run away from it he decided not to take to the hills in his usual fashion and after a while even went as far as sniffing it!

That was enough for one day as far as he was concerned though, it wasn't allowed to move towards him at all!!!

So he wandered off, all the while keeping an ear on the scarey bag.....while Kinna kept hoping it would suddenly contain some carrots!