Hey sorry it has been so long since I have posted. Well Alastor has come a long way in the last month. Every Thursday I take him to Gibb Town for a local team roping practice. The first time I took him I just moved the cattle back down the alley just to get him used to cattle with horns. He did great considering the light wasn't great. and having to open and close gates. Then the last couple of weeks I have been backing him in the box and heading off of him. I don't let anyone heal while I'm roping just because I'm not a roper and I want to keep all my fingers. But he dose very well staying quite in the box and tracking the steers down the pen.
Then last weekend we had horse O Roma at Will Rogers Coliseum in Ft. Worth. So I entered him in the open trail class. It was a great experience I was able to get him in a big indoor arena with concrete walls and people in the stands nothing seemed to bother him as I rode him around in there and people were leaning over the walls and rubbing on him. Ridding him through the course over Tiber's,bridges,through gates, and backing through an zig zag. He staid calm finishing 16th out of 28. He was competing against finished show horses the youngest being 10 and looked like it had never seen a pasture. Every one was very impressed with how calm and well Alastor did at the show.
