Bandit the weanling TWH - line driving - 12 Oct 2023

Another line driving practice session with Bandit the weanling Tennessee Walking Horse (TWH). He is getting better at steering lightly most of the time at a walk. He is getting better at backing - yesterday I introduced turning completely around while backing and we do it again today which allowed us to continue practicing backing longer and in a more complex manner - back through the L, turn around while backing, back through the L the other way. I continued to teach "Gee" (right) and "Haw" (left) as voice commands for steering - this is important for a horse used to actually do work while driving particularly tight space work such as harrowing a small garden plot. You can see what I mean in this video of my late mare, Kate, harrowing our upper garden Spring 2010 https://rumble.com/v3mxowp-harrowing-the-upper-garden-with-real-horsepower-spring-2010.html And today for the first time while line driving I asked Bandit to go in his second gait, the Running Walk.

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