Maverick
crossed a flowing creek like it was standing water, watched cows, and climbed
up and down hills like it’s nothing. Of course, he’s been on a few rides before
so it shouldn’t come to a surprise but he’s not my “go to” horse so I forget
that he has been exposed to a lot of different environments.
In the
arena, it’s impossible to get Maverick to lope. At home, riding alone, I don’t
want to try loping on him. But with riding with friends, we decided to see what
he would do. Oh my goodness, what a dream to lope! I’m used to the high knee action Arabians but
Maverick is a fairly comfortable lope as well. We didn’t lope for very far but
I wanted to keep going!! Maverick surprises me at every turn.
I’ve decided
that I will take Maverick to the next drill team practice just to goof around
with afterwards. I had high hopes of
making a Bo the next drill team horse but there’s no way I can work him like a
drill team horse and have any hope of him gaining any weight. He’s been on
pasture 24x7 for the past couple of weeks and he’s actually dropped weight. I’m
going to revert back to graining him his standard grain ratio and see if that
helps. He should be able to maintain his weight on pasture only but there’s
something wrong.
But on the
bright side, I think Maverick will be able to handle drill team with no
problems. I’m anxious to try him out now and see how he goes. I want to see if
he’ll lope in an outdoor arena or if he’ll get bogged down and think that he’s
not supposed to. Either way, I think when it’s time to retire Zeke, I’ll have
another horse coming up the ranks to use. I won’t feel so bad about working
Maverick since he’s still so young. He’s actually in his prime so best to start
using him to his full potential.
Maverick
surprises me all the time.
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