This is Romeo's first time down town; just walking him over the red bit, over that grid there.
Over that manhole.
What we're looking for is that he'll just walk over it
no hesitation,
not worrying what's
underneath his feet.
Still being driven just in a piece of rubber.
These manholes have also got a
slight raise so you get the carriage bumping about behind him as well.
Standing on a nice slack rein - he'll stand still when he's told.
Barry's just halted them
he's got them on a slack rein
its quite hot today so you can see they're a bit
itchy,
just walking off there, you can see he keeps his head nice and low when he moves off,
doesn't hollow himself out
when he's asked to take the weight of the carriage.
And this time round what Barry's going to do is Roly to
stay back - this is going to replicate
the situation if your other horse was distracted by something or
didn't walk on when you asked him to. See Romeo's got his foot at rest there,
just standing still quietly
and when Barry asks them to walk on
if you look at Roly's traces, they're slack
so Romeo's got the whole weight of the carriage - he's not speeding up,
keeping his head nice and low,
you can see Roly's right back out of his breastcollar, so he's not pulling the carriage
bearing in mind its on the flat, it wouldn't be fair to ask him to do this
going up a hill
but it just shows he is capable of doing it and he'll do it when he's asked - he's a
good little worker and he doesn't upset by it either.