Food. That's What I Want!

Well life is beginning to be crazy again! I started basketball yesterday, so now I have a tight schedule:

7:30-9:00 a.m - Blog and feed horses

9:00 a.m - 2:00 p.m - School

2:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m - Play with Pride and whatever other horse I chose

4:30 p.m - 6:30 p.m - Basketball practice

6:30 p.m - 9:00 p.m - Feed horses and do whatever I feel like
9:00 p.m - Go to bed
I wouldn't have decided to do basketball if it hadn't allowed time for me to play with atleast Pride. Horses are my first priority. Always. It still gives me 2 hours to play with Pride and if I have time left over I can pick one of the other horses to play with.
~October 13-2010~ Bareback with Savvy String around his neck, and bridle and reins.
Pride and I had a great play session yesterday! We played around in the round corral just getting warmed up (at liberty). Pride was doing great! Finally I decided I had to do something that he wanted today, and that was go for a ride out in the field. I let him eat at first for a couple minutes while I sat on him, then asked him to move out. He did, but he also kept trying to snatch bites as he went. I bumped him gently when I could feel his head going down, asking him not to do it. Sometimes he was too quick for me, but I still don't look it as a bad thing! He stretched his back like crazy when he was bending down and snatching a bite while walking.
Lately I've been working on disengaging the hindquarters, while I'm mounted. Pride hardly listened to me at first, which is weird because when I'm on the ground in the porcupine game he'll disengage with barely a phase 1. I wouldn't release his head until he moved his hiney and kept his inside front leg still and pivoted on that. He got it so quick! After I let him eat, then asked him to pull his head up.
I also asked Pride to do some leg-yields, he didn't do so great going to the right so guess what! We went to the right over and over untill he was light and responsive. Then let him eat. Pride was so light on the reins, I barely touched them and he would yeild his head to me or turn. It was beautiful!
I could see Pride just saying, "Food. That's What I Want!!"
So of course he put effort into what I asked him which was... Cool!

I have two challenges for you today!
1) Get questions! See just how many questions you can get your horse to ask you!
2) Know your responsibility's and your horses! If you already do that's great. For those of you who don't, learn them. How are you supposed to be fair when you have no idea persisely what your responsibilitys are and which ones are your horses.