Day 165

Sunday

If every day were like today, weather-wise, I'd be in heaven. It was the PERFECT day for riding. The sun was shining, the breeze was blowing. It was just the right temperature. We let all of them outside to run around before we rode, and my goal was to play with Harry in the field, but I think I ended up scaring him a little bit while I chased him around. Oops.

Of course because Harry had nice rides the last couple times we've been out, he had to act like a complete brat yesterday.

We all know the cause though -- the dreadful fruit basket (rear end collector). My mom rode him first with the fruit basket because she wanted to, well, collect him more for the show this weekend. 

While I rode Brie, who was a speed demon today, Mom was getting tossed around by Harry. It's bad enough that he has a horrible habit of getting angry when he's separated from Nina or even Brie who has made it clear that she doesn't like him, but with the added stress of the fruit basket he was extra bratty to her. He gave her a little bit of a hard time while we were in the indoor, but we were with a bunch of horses. Brie was just cruising around the arena like it was a racetrack when I saw my mom go in the outdoor arena. I followed her out a little while after, only to find her fighting with Harry, trying to keep him from spinning around and running back into the barn where all the action was at. I decided to push him along with Brie and he got angry, spun around and bucked and my mom almost fell off. She told me by then that was the third buck and she got off of him because he was clearly getting ready to rear after that and longed him around some traffic cones (which equally freaked him out). She got back on him and rode him back inside (which is what he wanted) and then worked him in there. 

Then she gave him to me. By then he was just all hunky-dory about being inside again so he was good, but still....this is turning out to be a major problem, this separation anxiety. Any tips on helping us get him over this problem?