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Post by mswan on Dec 26, 2008 12:38:55 GMT -5
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Post by mswan on Dec 26, 2008 12:40:29 GMT -5
Jasmine and John doing chores.
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Post by monicabee on Dec 26, 2008 19:24:00 GMT -5
I'm guessing Jasmine is playing the union supervisor role!
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Post by jodycat on Dec 27, 2008 9:08:08 GMT -5
I'm guessing Jasmine is playing the union supervisor role! LOL, Monica. She looks very content, doesn't she? Sweet old girl....
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Post by schwung on Jan 22, 2009 21:43:11 GMT -5
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Post by schwung on Jan 30, 2009 2:31:07 GMT -5
Miss Jasmine will be heading up to Black Raven for training this weekend. Nothing like breaking an 18 year old broodmare that's never been broke! Should be fun watching the changes in her!
Merle has done a fabulous job with her so I hear, Daphne our farrier did her feet today and she was a very, very good girl! Merle's going to be moving on to her next charges...little Lola and Aiden will be coming for a visit next!
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Post by schwung on Feb 4, 2009 0:58:34 GMT -5
Jasmine had her first training day which was just a little lunging (or teaching to lunge) in the arena. I had warned the trainer about her tendency to bolt if she didn't like something and she did try it a couple of times while on the lungeline, but the trainer just hung on to the lead and went with her and she did not get away. After she figured out her favorite trick wasn't working, she was a good girl. She didn't bathe her yet, and that's probably going to be another trigger point for Jasmine to say "I'm outta here" (based on Allison and I's experience trying to bathe her last year), so we shall see how that goes.
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Post by schwung on Feb 27, 2009 11:50:06 GMT -5
Jasmine is coming along with her training but is a little behind the others. She is a funny mix of both nervous and a bit of a bully when she decides she doesn't like something. She's tried the bolting move a few times but has not been successful in getting away so she is doing it less and less (the last time she did it was when they introduced her to clippers, she bolted down the barn aisle but didn't get away. It took about an hour but eventually she calmed down and then went ahead and let them clip her chin, muzzle and even her bridle path). She is getting much better about bathing and is learning to cross-tie. She is genuinely nervous about the riding part so they are going very slow with her, just doing a lot of lunging with tack and slowly introducing her to the weight of a rider on her back.
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Post by shekaberry on Feb 27, 2009 13:39:06 GMT -5
After at least 10 years of doing as she pleased, it sounds like Jasmine is not too keen on giving up the Queen Bee title. Hopefully she'll decide she likes working with people.
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Post by schwung on Mar 30, 2009 23:06:51 GMT -5
Jasmine is finally progressing, although at a very slow rate. Jasmine has been very committed to her fears of having a rider on her back. She cross-ties now, is good for bathing, even tolerates clipping. She's fine to saddle and getting much better about bridling as well (sugar cubes help). She lunges well and wears side reins. But having a rider on her back has been an issue for her. The last few weeks it has been the same every day. Tack up, lunge, have a rider stand up in the stirrup and lean over her back, and she would buck them off. Day after day, but slowly, slowly getting a little bit slower about it, getting a little less nervous about it. She has finally progressed to the point that she is allowing a rider to sit on her all the way and is walking. It doesn't sound like much, but its very encouraging progress from where Jasmine began. This has been tough for her, being 18 and pretty sure that her life was all about having babies and that humans were nothing more than vehicles to bring food (or not). She's doing well, and she'll get there, its just going to take more time with her. Harder than getting her used to a rider has been getting through to her emotionally, as she is very tuned out to people. That is slowly starting to improve also, and just a bit of personality is coming through. I think she will get there. Here she is in the cross-ties, getting groomed and tacked up: Lunging in the round pen. She's a cute mover! Standing in the stirrups, testing her reaction: Leaning over her back: Walking while leaning over: And finally sitting on her back: And walking, giving her lots of praise and reassurance:
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Post by rodeo51 on Mar 30, 2009 23:14:32 GMT -5
She is such a pretty mare and is really doing well! WTG!
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Post by shekaberry on Apr 2, 2009 17:08:03 GMT -5
Those spots on her hindquarters are interesting. Weird shedding pattern?
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Post by schwung on Apr 2, 2009 18:59:35 GMT -5
Yes, she is sort of half shedded out right now and her summer coat is significantly lighter than her winter coat.
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Post by schwung on Apr 13, 2009 12:17:30 GMT -5
I had a recent update that Jasmine has made significant progress in the last couple of weeks. She is now trotting under saddle, off the lunge line, in the big arena. It seems like she is finally figuring this riding thing out.
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Post by schwung on Apr 24, 2009 19:33:54 GMT -5
Jasmine is continuing to progress very well now in her training. She's walk/trot/canter under saddle now, in the big arena, with no ground person or even another horse in the arena with her. She's VERY forward but very sensible and not spooky. She just likes to go! Her canter is going to need some work, she kind of tends to crow-hop with her hind feet and canter in front, but hopefully that will improve with fitness. Her trot is really nice.
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