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I had a huge aha moment this year that any time I feel like taking up more rain on him
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because he feels a little amped up and nervous, I just throw the rains away and just trust
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And so I'll go into a class and he'll start the first couple of strides with his head
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up in the air and he's like, I can feel his back tense.
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And I used to like try to gather him up and calm him.
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And what I do now is I just keep those rains nice and loose and I'm like, you'll figure
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And within three strides, he's like, oh, yeah, I'm cool.
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Oh, wow, that's so cool.
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Well, yeah, that makes it.
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And then he feels more confident in you.
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It's reciprocal, I'm sure.
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And it's one of those things where you have to act different than how you feel sometimes.
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And you know, it's a combination of, this is what's really fun about showing is each
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horse has different preferences and it's a very much a psychological game.
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So some horses might want the security of you, you know, taking up the rains and saying,
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You're, you know, I'm here.
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I got you and you don't learn it until you just go to a million shows and you try
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out different things.
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But with Remy, when I ride him at home, I never care about, I know he's not going anywhere.
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He's slow as molasses.
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And so I never really care about where his head is, what's going on here there, because
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I know he'll get in the frame eventually.
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So I just ride him loose rains, hit bridalists half the time.
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And when I would go to shows, I realized I was trying to micromanage him too much.
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And so even though he would get real nervous, right, he has this thing where he, he's calm
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and then right before we go in, his head shoots up and he's like, ah, sort of fakes me
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And if I go opposite to my nature, my nature would be to also go, ah, and then we feed
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If I go, no, we're at home, this is just like home.
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And I throw those rains to him and I sit on him like, you're not going to, you're not
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You're not going to break gate.
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He goes, oh, yeah, that's right.
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I'm not going to do those things.
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And so it's been really fun learning that about him.
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And that is an interesting point too because I concur that there are some horses who want
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that packaged up feeling.
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It helps them feel secure and there are other horses that they just need to throw their
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They need to snort twice and then they're over it and are done.
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And if you try to micromanage, that tends to bottle them up.
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Had a very similar light bulb moment with James a few weeks back, the young horse that
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I'm still learning about what his personality, what his innate flight or fright, fight or
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flight reactions are versus what he's been, how he's been trained to act.
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I'm still learning those little bits.
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And he wants a little more freedom that I thought he did.
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But that's really hard because his flight reflexes are pretty damn quick in that, you
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know, he can do a 180 and be across the field before I can blink.
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So it's really hard for me to give him that freedom without giving up so much that we
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end up across the field and maybe in a disaster response, a very fine balance in there.
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I needed that today.
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