Am needing to get back with Chainsaw and ride him more. The horse I am riding is a 4yr old gelding that is so laid back he isn't doing the job needed for the mounted shooting. He just doesn't seem to want to run fast. But this is supposed to be about Chainsaw. We got back from the Iowa State Champ mounted shoot at Marshalltown Iowa, and LOTS asked about Chainsaw. It was raining last night so after I grained our 4 horses I decided I'd see how Chainsaw would do with some lateral flexation. My center isle is concrete and pretty slick so I decided to just work him in the 12X12 stall he is let into for grain since it has nice thick rubber mats in it. We must have spun 300 circles ( OK not THAT many but it sure seemed like it) before he figgured out that I was asking him to flex laterally while his feet were NOT MOVING. He did catch on tho was still pretty much on high alert, with a meowing cat and cats jumping up concerning him more than it would most horses. He might have been a little anxious due to the fact that the other three had left the barn and gone out to the pasture without him. In a half an hour or less he was giving to pressure and flexing both ways fairly well.
This morning I put the halter on him after feeding. ( I let our four horses in the barn 2X a day and give them about a half a scoop of Strategy then turn them out into an 8 acre pasture) This morning he flexed almost perfect in both directions in the stall and out in the alley of the barn.
Am planning on some more flexing and sending exercises and riding this week and will report back on how it's going.
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