Me and Joe

WOW. OK, I love Joe. We rode in a square mouth D ring.....I love it. Anyhow, After our brief warm up in the round pen....I got on him and walla.......right away he dropped his head and gave to the bit!!! No head shake! I asked for two trotting circles to the right.....he tipped his nose in and kept it level...collected...then the other way..same...then lope....same.....Our stops were square and BIG....nice nice! So we went to the back pasture! I decided to let him breeze.....yeah...me......I let him breeze!! JOE!! Anyhow, at first he was like...are you sure mom? I leaned forward and kissed....and off he went! Still allowing me to collect him but for sure covering some ground....about at 2/3's speed.......got to the top of the hill and I said whoa......omg he stopped!! Al little bigger stop that I was expecting! So we did it again! Wow. Joe is a good boy! Then we came back and trotted through the pattern once...........and it was perfect. So we quit for the day!