That's interesting. He seems to be doing it just because he's enjoying it, not as if he's agitated or bothered by bugs, etc. He looks very relaxed. I wish I could get my horse to exercise herself! All she does is stand by the barn door all day, taking the occasional break to go eat grass.
I once knew a horse, a beautiful western pleasure Quarter Horse stallion, who when turned loose in a pasture, would canter up and down the fence rail, at a beautiful slow, collected gait, on the correct lead, head and neck in perfect position, just exactly as he would be doing in the show ring. He wasn't neurotic or anything, he just seemed to enjoy doing it.
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That's beautiful Ariane. He looks like he's got a rider on board.
At one point, as he slows down just a bit, heading towards the paddock opening there's a little bigger tail swish (which I'm sure is just the flies) but it looks like he's almost "feeling" a little heel tap and he speeds up just a tad.
And as he's turning into the second paddock that last time, it's almost like he's "thinking" of going straight, then the bigger head toss as if shaking off a bit of a reining direction and the perfect turn.
The horse could very well be relaxed but as Anne said,"pattern trained".
My dad rescued an old team of ponies that spent a lot of years in harness. When they walked around the yard side by side, with no harness on they would both drop their heads at the same time to eat grass. Homer always on the left and Duchess always on the right. In harness neither one could eat grass unless the other dropped his/her head. It just carried over. They were pattern "trained".
Just so for fun. Beau is just off stall rest and back to work. He has not been on a longe line in a long long time. He is train to PSG but yes figue 8 are the basic and fondation of many more advance figures and movements.
He does that when he wants to play but his new paddock buddy much prefect the novelty of grass. He did that with all of his previous pasture mates
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