Last night I lunged Jazz. I and Mandy walked over to the field. Once we arrived there I went into the field and put on Jazz's head collar. We began walking towards the yard. Jazz is afraid of tractors so at the first one we met parked in the field I reassured Jazz that it was ok and she sniffed it and carried on walking. I was overjoyed, she didn’t spook! The next obstacle that we faced was the small herd of cows that Ted keeps, Jazz looked at them and I led her around them and she ignored them. She was more interested in Gwen! I continued to lead Jazz towards the stables. We came to the last tractor that was just next to the gate. Jazz looked at it and jumped a bit, I let the rope go as long as it would and led her up to the tractor and its attachments for her to have a look and sniff at. Once she realized that nothing could hurt her she was fine. I continued down to the yard and tied up Jazz on a long rope. We groomed her, whilst she looked at the cows. She was being disrespectful and barging us out of the way, so we shouted at her and she stood still. Next, I put on her saddle; she fidgeted when I tried to do up the girth so I waited for her to settle before I did it up. Once the saddle was on, I got the bridle. Jazz started playing up and turning out of the way every time I tried to get the bridle on. Eventually I got it on. I then got on my hat and led Jazz to the school. We walked around the perimeter of the school on each rein just to settle her. Then we began to start work. Jazz refused to lead round properly so Mandy had to hold her and walk next to her. Jazz began to play up and started bucking so Mandy started lunging Jazz. I went and got the lunge whip. Mandy worked Jazz hard and she began to listen at the end. Ted also came to watch and he said Jazz needs to go back to basics so that’s now the plan. We are gonna start from the beginning.

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