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I don’t have a lot to say today. It is Halloween after all, so I have to get back to eating candy. I just want to say that Leo slid today for the first time. Everyone in the arena who saw cheered and his owner ran into the arena and hugged his horse. I want to say it was a ten foot slide, but it was really only about 2 feet….maybe a foot and a half.
The funny thing is that I didn’t even really know that it happened. I was just trying to show Jim how well Leo was doing with flexion at a canter. He was keeping his head nice and low and giving to the pressure of my hands. I went around a few times and knew he wanted to stop, so I just leaned back a teeeny weeeeny bit, said “Whoa,” and pulled lightly on the bit. They said he looked fantastic and really tucked his butt under.

I LOVE LEO! And I LOVE MY LES VOGT TRAINING VIDEOS! I feel more optimistic every single day. Jim, the owner and diehard team roper said, “mmmmaybe I won’t try to rope on him this summer..maybe I’ll just let you keep working with him…” Huge compliment. Point of this blog post: training is going extremely well. (Sorry for shouting earlier, I’m just so proud of Leo. He’s being such a great horse.)