So my patience and persistence have definitely paid off. Yesterday I took Cabot for a little drive in the trailer. We went in a big circle about a 20 minute ride. He hopped on right away, which was a good start and then started to fuss once he figured out he was tied and I was closing the door. He was mostly quiet for the ride as far as I could tell. Then the true test was to get him back on once we unloaded back at the barn. He made a little show of it and refused at first, but once I got his grain he hopped right on. He got on and off a couple times doing that until I closed him in to eat. Finally close to done, I opened the door and he hopped off. I wanted to go back and get his bucket and he actually followed me in again. I'm so proud of him :-D. Hopefully we can get to the point where we don't need the grain, but for now, that is SO MUCH improvement. I did this all by myself too btw.
I spent Monday lunging him in side reins. I've decided to take a couple of steps back so he gets better with the bit contact and doesn't try to whack me in the head when I ask him to turn. The lessons seem to be paying off.
Oh and we bought a dressage saddle. It's a brown Passier that I got a super amazing deal on and it fits him like a dream. :) So now we're really going to have to do an 3-phased event...
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