![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve learned to pick my battles with her and not to fight too much as we both get easily frustrated. It’s not always pretty, but I have found that those moments are more abundant with a colt.Mine is 4 now and still only has around 100 days of riding on her throughout her whole life, partly due to being started late and life getting in the way the last year. Now my seasoned horses have had some moments too, where I’ve come out of the arena wanting to just disappear into a hole or go back to my trailer and cry, I will be the first to admit. It is so easy to get discouraged when you’re at a jackpot and your colt decides to act like it doesn’t even know how to steer or follow its nose in front of everyone watching because it’s too overwhelmed by everything happening around it. By the time I started hauling mine, previous owners had taken them places whether it was local fun shows or trail rides. I made it 15 years in the barrel industry without having to do the hard work of hauling a young one to see the sights and exhibition. Guest Author Dealing with Pressure By #TeamDiO Member Jenn Thorne The pressure of seasoning colts often weighs heavily on a lot of people in the horse industry, myself included.
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