Apollo, a work in progress

@simon lenihan 17302 wrote:

We had a small oak thinning job which we used apollo to do, he did very well, but he is still only green broke.
simon lenihan

That will explain why he is finding everything so easy, not sure how much you had done with him, but thought it best to go back to basics.

On day eight we had him in the round pen, and harnessed, and ground driven by day 10.

Day 12 When we first got him, picking up his feet was an issue, it did’nt take long and i can now use the rasp without bother. Except it makes me blow like a puffing billy!

Day 14 Today he showed his mettle (a little), where we round pen him is three and a half miles from where my horses are kept, we take him in the trailer. Today being a Saturday, there was lots of horse activity going on around us, children on ponies, horses calling from the surrounding fields, etc.
He did not settle and was in a fractious mood, it was one of those mornings where you just had to come out on top, and it took three hours to do so, but at the end of it all, I drove him out of the pen and walked him the three and half miles back to his field without a care. He has yet to learn that “whoa” means “stand there, untill I say different”, he is impatient. Of course, my mentor says, “in my day, we’ve had hooked him up with an old mare to do two hours harrowing now, one that would let him do all the work”, anyway we finished on a good note and I will drive him tomorrow straight from the yard, (hopefully).