The beginning (Ides?) of March saw us (Blue and I) traveling to Springfield IL for the Illinois Horse Fair (produced by the Horsemens Council of Illinois) for a weekend of both giving and receiving assistance.
While I helped to keep everyone warm on the outside in some of the older (historic) buildings of the Illinois State Fairgrounds, Blue (with a little help from me) helped warm people's hearts with a few fun romps in the arena under the guidance (egging on?) of Steve Lantvit of Steve Lantvit Horsemanship.
We manage to do most of the things in the pasture at home that Steve had us working on in the arena at IHF (but I can safely say no where near as smoothly as he would desire) - backing, side stepping, opening gates, dragging branches - Blue demonstrated (mostly with that devilish gleam in his eye I am sure!) that those and him were not meant to be in the same arena during IHF!
While one minute feigning dread at the rope "gate" and attempting to eat the gate the next, his crowning achievement was being chased by a blue barrel on a rope while being chased by 4 other horses/riders in front of a full crowd on Sunday morning! What a rush!!!
We had a great time! I learned a huge amount about working with Blue (and horses in general) and gained a lot of insight about my skill set. It was a great weekend.
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