Will you expose Tosca to a group of people converging on her, maybe carrying a substitute rider, before putting Stephanie on?
So there's where you're more astute than I was Judy. Yes - that turns out to be a huge component that I missed for Tosca. Especially for Tosca who tends to be wary of people she hasn't met. The one time Stephanie was on her, briefly before Tosca bucked, the pony was very unhappy about the three strangers who surrounded her. After the fact, we did put two of our helpers up and repeated the exercise successfully with them sliding all over her back, especially sliding way back down her spine which she really hated. I felt quite guilty that with all the prep we'd done, I hadn't thought how different it would be for Tosca to have extra people around. nancy
