Riding Journal
Awareness of the outside world. “Ingenuity carries a swatch of fabric from the Wright brothers’ plane.” CNN: NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter survives first freezing night on Mars, by Strickland, April 2021.
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Without boots, Milton has two modes: super slow motion and sticky OR coming unglued and hopping about like a wind-up toy. [too many posts to mention]
With boots.
Walk? Over-tracking while on the buckle.
Trot? Okay.
Canter? Sure thing, Boss. Immediately. Off voice command.
It’s awesome.
It’s also annoying.
Us: 7 years. We tried everything. The answer was boots? BOOTS?! Really? REALLY?!
Milton: Yes.
Us: Well, okay then.
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Update
[Miracle Boots, More Of The Story]
[Rodney’s Boots]
Stay safe. Stay sane.
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
Such a simple thing. Who knew? Milton knew. Now you know. Life is strange.
Horses are strange and mystifying creatures.
Could it be his racing past? Boots mean business? But, hey, whatever works!
Racing would more likely be a bad memory for a slow racehorse. No one likes to be bad at their job & horses know when humans think the horse has failed. My $0.02.
Makes sense. Perhaps it’s just a security issue and he physically feels better with them- in any event, happily taking a breakthrough, whatever the reasoning behind it, remains a good situation! It is an interesting turn of events! Hopefully leading to a positive 2021- he’s a very handsome horse!