Running

Today at the stables, we exercised the horses by having them run in the round pin. At first, neither wanted to run although Sedona (the chestnut horse in the front) wanted to bite Kona's (the brown horse with her head sticking in the picture) tail. Then, Kona galloped for a bit while Sedona stood still. After a while, we chased Sedona around until she started to run. After she started running, she didn't stop for a while. In the picture, Kona was running behind trying to keep up.

When we exercise them this way, we do everything both directions. So they walk each direction, they trot each direction etc. In the middle of her run, Sedona suddenly stopped without slowing down. Then, she turned around and took off running in the other direction all by herself. That worked out well for us because it meant that we could just stand in the middle without having to chase them. Sedona knew the routine so well she changed directions all by herself. Kona was pretty happy chasing Sedona so exercised themselves.