20 rising 2!

When i bought Sparky i was warned that he could be mean to other horses in the paddock. I was cool with this because i hate clingy horses. Well he has now decided that Lucy is his best friend for life and he cannot bear to be parted from her. GREAT! Just what i didn't want to happen...

When i do take him away from her for a ride etc he gets all stressy. In the arena he wasn't even really listening to me. I could feel him looking over at her. Mole rat! On a positive note i actually manged to sit to a Sparky canter today. He has quite a big canter compared to what i am used to and i haven't been able to park my bum properly in the saddle until today. So every cloud has a silver lining.

Tomorrow i plan on doing some ground work before my ride. Getting him focussed on ME instead of Lucy goose. Working on park and some overshadowing if i need to. If i was cleaver i would have done it today lol. Got to love the TBs with ADD...

Finished off our ride today by putting him in the paddock with Lucy. Hopefully that will settle him down a bit. But this was not before he acted like a stallion and tried to kill the horse in the next paddock. Smooth sparkle boy! Secretly deep down inside he's actually 2 years old...