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My Join-Up® Experience

Join up/follow up - horse on horse

Hello! 100 lessons completed 150 lessons completed 200 lessons completed 250 lessons completed 300 lessons completed 350 lessons completed 400 lessons completed 450 lessons completed 500 lessons completed 550 lessons completed 600 lessons completed

I had the best of luck yesterday when I watched my boy (Nalle, but some of you may know him as Mr. Smartypants)and his field-/stablemate, Irre, play in the small "gravel-field".
It's a small area, slightly bigger than a round-pen and more rectangular in shape. Originally it was built as a dry "sick-bay" (with sand and gravel for footing) but we use it in winter when the fields are too muddy.
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Anyway, the two boys (age 4.5 and 6.5) had been playing and fooling around for 15 min when the older one, Irre, got tired of it, and with lowered neck, flattened ears and half open mouth, had my boy trotting a near perfect circle around him. Not fast and only a couple of turns. Nalle did change direction once, but I didn't see if that was his effort to get past Irre or if Irre turned him. (I hid inside the barn looking out a window).
He did another lap or so and then there was licking and chewing and slowing down, and with pricked ears and relaxed attitude, Nalle approached Irre, who turned away and let him follow him a turn before he stopped.
My boy obediently stopped behind him and just stood there as if that was his most important task that day.
It was just so much fun to watch this and know what I was seeing.
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Boy, I wish I had that control over him!! LOL!!!

Kleinne - Utah, U.S.A.
Hello! 100 lessons completed 150 lessons completed 200 lessons completed 250 lessons completed

Too bad you didn't catch this on video, it would have been great to see! Very cool...

ruthy - Gold Coast, Australia
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Agreed! Very cool!

Gen (Queensland, Australia)
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You are so lucky, you got a joinup lesson from "the horses mouth" so to speak. Very cool in deed ;-)

Charlotte - Gauteng, South Africa
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Thats so cool Kicki!
Must have been AMAZING!!
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Kicki -- Sweden
Hello! 100 lessons completed 150 lessons completed 200 lessons completed 250 lessons completed 300 lessons completed 350 lessons completed 400 lessons completed 450 lessons completed 500 lessons completed 550 lessons completed 600 lessons completed

Kleinne wrote: "Too bad you didn't catch this on video, it would have been great to see! Very cool..."
Yeah, that is my usual luck! I almost always carry my trusty digital camera to the stable, but I never seem to have it on me when something really interesting happens. Sigh! It would have been so much fun to have it on film!