Horse-shy

Something that Tesla has struggled with is traffic in the ring.

She tends to get nervous, especially when horses are coming towards her/passing her at more than a walk, or jumping (knocking down jumps is even worse!)

But tonight she was perfect!

I took her out to the round pen and let her roll and get out all her willies, until she was walking and her nose, mouth and chin were so relaxed they were swaying with every stride.

Then I brought her in, put the little western on, and up to the arena we went!

There were three other gals in the arena whizzing around.

and she didn't bat an eye! (but those ears were swiveling LOL). We had horses cantering around us, right next to us, and she was calm as a cucumber, so we just stood in the middle, and watched the scenery (with lots of pets and sugar) and no spooks.

Progress!