Sounds great. Yeah, Cyn does sound like a great horse:). I would think Bay walks like that mostly because of his past, being an endurance horse..??? I think you're pretty smart taking things slow at the start. Especially with Cyn. IMO, horses form habits pretty quick and if you went out there the first couple of times moving out pretty quick, she'd get it in her head that is the way she is always suppose to go. You can almost always get them to speed up (only exception I've had is Rock:), but sometimes getting them to slow down if they're in the habit of going can be a challenge, like Bay. It's so hard to find one that goes fast enough, to keep the ride interesting, but slow enough that you can enjoy visiting with a partener.
Do you think you'll get to go again next weekend.
Becky
Yeah - Bay's set in his ways, and he'd rather trot out the first couple miles... And I am sure that's his endurance racing, as well as just his temperament. He gets excited to go, so he walks fast. The trouble with him is always with the other riders with me who get tired of trotting to keep up. ;~D
What's good about Cyn is she seems to go fine even in front. when ecurbh would continue to trot past me and stop a ways ahead, she wasn't at all nervous about going first, the way some are. The only way to slow Bay's walk down without fighting him is to put him behind, which I didn't do too much because Cyn was lifting her tail at him... she's still in heat.
Not this weekend (would rather stay out of the public trails on holiday weekends anyway) but I think we'll get the truck back for the weekend of June 3.