"I'm all alone, there's no one here beside me..."

Trotting around the neighbor's field

This is the extended trot that he volunteers when he gets
nervous. It feels MASSIVE under saddle, but once we
can harness it, we'll rock some dressage test!

Up to this point Reily has had a baby sitter of some kind on each of his rides off the property.  But since we can't build a riding ring yet and there's no real flat places on the property to do "ring work" I usually ride Boo about a half mile down the road to a neighbor's property where he has a nice flat, large, unused field and is kind enough to allow me to use it as a riding ring.  So my boyfriend has helped me out by riding Boo with me so we could take Reily down there to see it and ride around in it a few times with company.  Well today was the big day, his first ride off the property all by his lonesome.  He was just a little nervous, had his head up and was just a little bit quicker than usual, but never offered any truely bad behavior.  Never bolted, never bucked, in fact he never even yelled for the other horses, which is typical of young horses new to showing and/or new to being seperated from all other horses.  So I was very proud of him.  He did bulge through his shoulder some, especially if we were headed in the direction of home, but nothing awful.  Here's a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfA4Ehwnq9Q&context=C3de2787ADOEgsToPDskLZ7Rss25kqW3FoEnbL-UuO) of his first time riding alone.  Sorry the image quality is so poor, my old camera might take decent photos but it's real low quality when it comes to video capture.  All in all very proud of him :)

Just cantering along, he's got a big, ground covering stride!