Saturday I took Wiseguy out all by myself with the cart. It was the second time taking him out since I got him. We did a good job. He still isn't thrilled about taking the bit but I did get it into his mouth by taking my time and gently insisting this was going to happen. I had to put the cart on him with out any help but he stood nicely and was very patient. We walked east on tenth. We got to Catfish [about half a mile]. Then I got him to trot. He wanted to canter but I reined him back down to a trot 2 or 3 times and then he trotted nicely.
We were on pavement so once we reached Antelope [about a quarter of a mile] we turned onto the gravel road. It's actually road base. We got to Bass after about half a mile. We stopped at the stop sign. I was thinking about taking him home but he seemed like he had a lot of go left in him so, after the car went by, I kept going up Antelope.
We did a few figure eights on the dry lake bed. Then we trotted up to Angel. There is another half mile, this time on dirt. Then, we trotted up Angel to Tenth [a quarter of a mile] and made a right turn towards home. I walked him the last half mile to make sure he was nicely cooled down.
I thought we did great! We did about two and a half miles total.
He spit the bit out as fast as he could. I brushed him a bit. I walked him out to the mailbox and to close the gate since he was still a little sweaty under the harness and I thought it would be good to make sure he was really dry before I put him up. He really wanted to go back into his pen! He got his treat [senior feed and psyllium pellets].
He doesn't know it yet but we are going out again tomorrow. Shh! Don't tell him.
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