Friday I overslept and took a later bus to the barn. I watched Gillian and Sam graze goats, then Nicky threw a fit in the arena. Then I rode Luca! He was completely distracted by the pony campers, mostly by the horses calling because clearly they were calling DIRECTLY TO HIM. I just kept working at various things, we have a decent halt and a decent free walk. In this arena, with few things going on around him.

Most of the day was prettying up Luca. We bathed him and shaved his whiskers and tried out the french braid. Gillian took out Star and I pulled Keno out. She said he'd be sore from yesterday so I put a saddle on and took him out! to the field!. He was not sore. He wanted to GO GO GO. So I let him trot for a while, and then I even cantered him on purpose. We didn't go all the way around the field, just kept turning and going back, since I didn't know if his anxiety to go fast was related to going to the barn or not, and one of the goals of taking him out is to make him stop jigging. Only one buck, and that was as much a flying change as anything else. He did walk back to the barn. It took a lot longer than I wanted-- if he'd walked calmly around the field once, I would have put him back, since that's what we want him to learn. Oh well. Now I have taken the two easiest horses out on the trail. Yay me.