Hercules and I will be participating in the Natural Horse Showdown this weekend in Midway, UT. It is a fundraiser for the Utah Animal Adoption Center and I think the perfect opportunity to get Hercules out in a crowd of “strange” horses and see how he will behave. So tonight we spend practicing obstacles on the ground that they used last year. We worked with a tarp and doing a slalom course with cones. Then just for fun we threw in some obstacles that we may encounter in Texas worked on crossing a bridge and some more with the ground poles and also with pulling a slicker out of a mailbox and wearing it. Hercules just thrives on new tasks. We are having so much fun.

I also wanted to expose Herc to the electric clippers since his brand will have to be clipped in Texas. He actually seemed to enjoy the vibration. I asked Janet to give him a bridle path and while she was at it she clipped his whiskers. He actually pushed into the blades to feel the vibrations. It was quite comical.

Since it has been so hot and Hercules has been doing so good I took him over to the sprinkler and let him stand in it to cool off. Then he thought he would return the favor with the other sprinkler. This horse really does have quite the sense of humor.