I hung out with Vin tonight in the indoor and did a bit of free work with him; simple stuff like moving him around at a distance, turn, stop, stand, come to me, keep his attention on me; that sort of thing. I had rolled a plastic barrel out into the arena earlier to give him something to think about. With rewards of neck scratches, he picked up on rolling the barrel with his head in just a couple of minutes. In the end he rolled it all the way back to the corner where it lives. And I got a lot more ears up time than we’ve had so far. He’s a smart one! I can see that the early work I did with him was worthwhile. He may make a trick pony yet.
Checking me out at about a month old...
Pedestal work at 5 months old.
And this was at 4 days. Lily is doing a good job supervising the situation...
He does a great pooky lip (like the photo below) when I find his itchy spots and he stretches his neck down, instead of up, like Paisano does. I like that. 
Paisano playing with my camera strap when he was 3.
Vinnie is pretty smelly and has scabs and stuff hiding under his hair. If it is at all warm on Saturday, he is getting a bath! I know my coat ended up in the laundry tonight… If he is presentable enough on Saturday, I may even post a picture!
Can’t wait to see how he develops. He could be quite the sensation at next years expo???
Thanks for reminding me of the Expo. Time to start planning! I’ll have to see what sort of trick we can learn by then.
I think that Lily will be staying home, as she’ll be getting to 7 months in foal. So it will be just the Vinster and me…