Day Twenty Eight: Today we are going to make the change from me controlling him on the lunge line too Kristen controlling him on his back. I round penned Happy until he got his play out. Kristen mount and I send him out on the lunge line like the day before. When Kristen starts to ask Happy to move out buy clucking Happy starts to get nervous and starts to look back at her and tuck his ass a little I pull his attention to me and ask him to face up and come to me. He has already started to relax by the time he gets to me in the middle of the pen. I pet him and step back and let Kristen ask Happy to move out again. He stays relax this time moving from a trot to a lope while Kristen is asking him. He gets a little scared when Kristen first ask him to move out, not sure if he should listen to me or Kristen but I prefer to do it this way with hot horse at first. I push him on the ground and then let everything be nice when riding him until he will except each step. I have found that time spent here is time gained later so even though I have fallen behind in his training, I feel he will jump ahead when he relaxes and is ready to learn. If a horse is worried or scared he doesn’t learn well so my goal is push Happy to a nervous state and then bring him back enough times he looks to me for guidance. Happy is ready to ride without the lunge line.