Back at it again

Boy it has been a busy month. TX & I have adopted, retrained, and rehomed an abandoned horse from the barn. I found a stud horse for Sugar, and now it’s just waiting for the perfect time. (Am I ready to be a grandma?? LOL) and we have attended another show, where BOTH Sugar & Diamond did fabulous, Diamond went over the bridge in the trail class, (WOOHOO!!) and performed the rest of the obstacles nicely. She placed 3rd behind two older horses that are more experienced. Now it’s back to the daily training with Baby Diamond.
I have continued with our existing training regimen, consisting of exercise in the round pen, controlling her speed, direction, and movements, bitting up, tacking up in the cross ties, standing ground tied, lowering her head when asked, and ground driving. We have moved from turns and WHOA, to backing as well. And as usual, Diamond is doing great, taking to all of it nicely, and nothing seems to throw her for a loop into outer space. She is still leery of the clippers, but is getting better with each session.
We are working on the response and reward system. So when she stands quietly, the clippers go off, when she’s wiggling around, walking circles, throwing her head, I keep those clippers on, and touching her. The times of quiet standing are getting longer and longer, and it’s almost time to step it up a notch out in the round pen... If she stands quietly and let’s me clip her with the clippers, great, but if she moves off, then it’s lap time!