Lunged Newt in front of the barn. He can trot three poles almost without looking. I got on and rode him to the arena, something I have not done in a while. He did good. We worked in the arena. Newt was very manageable today. We did not canter. I rode him around the top of the pond and made the loop on the west end and back to the gate. Topsie and York had run something to ground under a old lumber pile beside the gate so I got off and walked him by the commotion. If I had ridden past that gate, they would have jumped an armadillo that ran under Newt and then performed the famous armadillo straight up jump and hit Newt in the belly. And that would have been dangerous for me! So I just walked him back to the barn. It was a good ride.
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