He was drenched when we returned to the home base. He was not tired though...just soaking wet. All the new stuff, quads, bikes, cows, people, other horses, hills....they left him rather high. I met a man there who helped him calm down (just by providing him consistent boundaries and expectations...without talking to him or really even looking at him...) and he gave me some helpful tips for working with Caballero...especially on hills. Caballero only wanted to run down hills, steep hills, very scary. And my tension transferred to him easily and didn't help him calm down. So I took the advice and will remember to stop worrying about everything around me and do what needs to be done to get Cab and me on the same page regardless of environment. Great experience for both of us.
See he's calm now and almost all dry!
Camp...you can see some of the others involved and even cows in the distance. THey will be held in this area until the next day when they will be rounded up into the corrals, sorted and shipped back to their homes for the winter.
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