Spring Fever

Yesterday I took Izzy for a walk around the grounds. And slowly introduced her to a small section of our racetrack. We were with a couple of other horses and surprisingly she was the least extreme when the other horses spooked or got really excited. For the most part she just stuck with me. I got her to go over a log...she didn't jump, just walked. Then she wouldn't go in the puddles that day though. We played the game stick to me where she has to mirror me...she had to walk and trot when I got faster or slower. I didn't want to try the cantering because she was running on adrenaline already. We had a short but semi-steep hill that I asked her to go up and down. She would go down slow and calm. But she would rush up it or jump up and when she got to the top she would rear and prance around. She would be the kind of horse that would rush jumps I think. When we were on the track we would do a lot of approach and retreat. We looked crazy just going back and forth and doing circles on the far turn of the track. But with her being off the track I didn't want to go any further. I was a little nervous with all the energy she had, but she and I ended on a good note and we both survived another day.