Peanut's work today was focused on "giving results" to other riders. One of the things I do with training horses in the later stages of their training (or a "refresher" horse like Peanut) is giving a lesson on the horse. I choose a level of student appropriate for what I'm looking to get out of the horse. My point in this is to confirm the horse's training. A trained horse that ONLY works for their trainer is useless to an owner. My goal is to give a client back a horse that not just I can ride, but hopefully ANYONE can ride, and get similar results.
I had two people get up on him who had NEVER ridden a gaited horse before and he naturally offered them a decent gait. A little pacey, but not bad overall. I was able to talk them through improving the gait and get the timing to influence the gait to an even step sequence successfully. He also nailed his right lead canter easily.
To end, he was taken onto the driveway for more exact gaitwork. I talked Vicki through adjusting her balance to improve/influence the gait and got on and demonstrated as well. Peanut was excellently behaved for his work, and complied with everyone's requests with good humor, patience, and performed as expected and sought after.
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