When I brought by Bailey up to the arena, she was nervous and wanted to move her feet.
She started to do the "skitter," when she is moving faster than a twelve foot circle gives her room for. I did not want to change to a twenty two foot line because she was not used to it. We haven't played with the twenty foot line because of other people in the arena and when we were alone the main focus was on relaxation. I also did not want Bailey to run it out because Amanda does not want Bailey to learn that she is allowed to run like that with other people.
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So far to stop Bailey I would exhale as obviously as I could and bring my energy down even more to stop, but still stay facing the circle or ask her to disengage.
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But today Bailey was not responding to the disengage. I asked her lightly for one circle and then I lightly tagged her with the stick and string. This made Bailey only speed up more.
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I called Amanda to the arena and she showed me a different method, the one when you pull the rope in the opposite direction she is going. It was very effective, but Bailey's mind felt like it was still up in outer space.
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I felt I needed to stop and think about it so I brought Bailey to her stall. We finished by asking Bailey to wait for her carrots.
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I have gotten a bit emotional and did not want to affect Bailey too much. I think she still knew about it as I can't hide my emotions from any horse as they are so very sensitive to body language.
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Update: we have gotten ourselves sorted out and have had an amazing session right after!