Journal Entry - March
Due April 10th at 11:59 PM 🐴📝
Your March journal should be at least 250 words and include honest updates on your horse’s progress this month — the wins, challenges, setbacks, breakthroughs, and anything new you’re noticing or learning as your partnership continues to develop.
As you write, think about:
What feels more consistent than last month
What is still difficult or unpredictable
How your communication and connection with your horse is changing
One specific goal you want to work toward next month
Please include:
Conformation photos from all four sides (front, back, left, right)
A 2–5 minute progress video showing what you’ve been working on this month
These journals are meant to help you track growth over time and reflect on your journey with your horse. The more honest and detailed you are, the more meaningful they’ll be when you look back later.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/ewyWYWKaDLs?si=exjUbaTFqwbSVCBL
This month has been a very busy time with show season in full swing, IEA, and getting my 3 year old show ready and all the things in between I will say it has been hard this month to put in the work with Luna. Through all the busyness me and Luna have been working hard on our liberty work. This month Luna gained a new horsey friend and I think she acually rather go back to her quiet life with the donkeys lol. This month Luna has really tuned in during our liberty. I noticed this month she has much more energy during our sessions and we can trot and move out for longer periods of time. I even can have her do some lope strides around me though we are still building up stamina for that. She has become just a breath of fresh air to work with after working with the baby horses as she is so eager to please and makes training so fun. She is getting much better at side passing and I am working on keeping her from stepping forward. Our spanish walk is improving a ton and we are finaly starting to include some forward movement! One thing I thought was really cool this month is she acually let me sit on her! though she is not under saddle I just wanted to see what would happen and turns out she trust me enough to at least sit up there and pet on her! but any forward movement is an absolute no from her. I can have her circle around me at a standstill, I can have her move out and also come in at my shoulder and circle. She is getting more smooth in her changes in direction and I dont have to be so obvious in my cues. I also introduced her to a bean bag this month and she was scared of it at first but we were able to back up pretty close to it and get one leg to touch it which I call a win for one session. We finaly got a key to a local arena so I can start taking her to a areana and working on my pattern. One thing I am struggling with is keeping her out of my space during liberty, she can get pushy at times so we have to have a good balance of positive rienforcment and respecting me and my space. Something I dont even think about anymore with her and that has inproved so much since we got her is walking through gaits! She used to rush through them and was pretty dangerous and now I can have her walk through at liberty without even thinking. We also have gotten just more confident around each other, I am not so weary about her hind end anymore and she is doing so well for the farrier and for bathing. I have a good idea of what I want to do for the show off and I need to start getting all my props and ideas put together. Next month we plan to take her through more obsticals and hoppfully pony her along on a trail ride.