06 May 2008

the weather has warmed up quite a bit now and the grass has dried out well so I got the training weaves out for Saffy. She does gallop up and down them very quickly unless I have the camera out, that slows her down.

At the moment I have the weaves very widely spaced as she is still too young to be training them properly. Once she is a year old I will start gradually narrowing the gap. I am aiming just to get her used to moving through the poles at speed. I want her to move through them from start to finish without popping out of them and regardless of what I am doing or where I am. The long term goal is for her to be able to do the weaves independently. In the video she is happily running away from me to the end of the weaves.