Satin's turn

Well I went out Sunday September 4 to work with Levi only to find her with gash above her eye and enough swelling her eye was barely open. Ugh 4 yrs and now she starts with the boo boos.  So doctored her up and caught Satin instead.  Now Satin thinks with her riding is jump on and go for a jaunt, which she is pretty good for and good at.
A little back story on Satin before I start.  I bred for and raised Satin, she was born on my mom and dad's farm so I have had her from the very beginning. I showed her in futurities as a weanling, so she had lots of ground handling in that time. Wonderful horse to work with from the ground. I have never had to tie or twitch her to clip or bathe. She is just a good girl. Well I had 2 little kids in school by the time her 2 yr old rolled around so she got VERY sporadic work done with her so her 2 yr old year she had maybe 15 rides total and only walking at that!!
Then she hardly got ridden at all between year 3 and 4, then I bred her to our then paint stallion at 4 yrs old. Then Levi was foaled out and they just ran with the rest of the broodmares until we quit breeding. Then we got Jake for Josie about 3 yrs ago I think and I had someone to ride with!!! YES!
So I jumped on Satin with a halter and lead, she was a little cold backed.. still is to this day... not a sun fishing, getting with it cold back just a bit goosey and humpy when you first get on. I credit her heavy Two Eyed Jack breeding as the cause LOL.  I have tried to goed her into buck but she is all talk and no do when it comes to the actual bucking process :D.
We rode down the road, at Stephens Forest and in parades and for a very green horse she was doing great. She is very thin skinned so she doesn't like a lot of pressure applied before she gets irritated but she would never buck .. she shows in other ways which you will see in her videos LOL. She is an evader. The problem is I never worked with her like the work I am putting into Levi's training. I didn't do all the flagging and sacking, the bending or flexing, or yielding of the fore and hindquarters. You know actually WORKING. Well with Levi out for a short while I decided it was time for her to learn all this, much to her disappointment.
Anyway back to Sundays ride. I tacked Satin up with the barrel saddle and plain O ring snaffle. Donned my spurs and we went to work. We worked on side passing, backing, half passing and turning on the hindquarters (she needs LOTS of work in all these areas).  She did attempt lots of evading this Sunday.

I then went out with her on Wednesday night after work and since she was not yielding well with the snaffle I took a step back and put in her back into the sidepull. She tried evading and rooting against that but her overly sensitive nose quickly quit fighting that rope nose and she was got much softer.  You will notice that I do use the reins to "slap" her shoulder on some of the turns. She was not hit hard just enough to revert her attention back to where it was supposed to be.. the other horses were running around and hollering and she would forget what she was supposed to be doing :)

I realize for a 9 yr old mare she should already know these things but most of the people I let ride her don't know them so I never really thought about teaching them to her LOL. She is a good babysitter for those with less experience than I, and for that she is worth her weight in gold..(and that's quite a bit!).

So enjoy, critique, do as you will. :-)