Wonderful Work in Progress: Fast and Furious Week Four

I apologize for being a day late posting this.

Sam was pretty good in his fourth week here. We found out he can run if he wants to.
One day we were working with him in the arena, which is in our hayfield and does not have a fence, except around the entire field. We were attempting to get Sam to lope around in a circle on the line. He did not really want to do this or his body does not have quite all the muscle build up it needs to do this. Anyway, the rope got out of hand and he took off. He was flying! he ran all the way back through the open gate of the hayfield and up to the driveway.
At this moment out hearts stopped. We thought "Oh no. He is going out to the road and is going to be scared to death."
But, Sam turned around and ran back into the hayfield and down the fence line between the other horses' pastures and the field just as fast as he had run out!. Needless to say, I went and closed the gate as quickly as possible. After Sam got all of his energy out, running like we did not know he could, he let us just walk up to him and put him back to work on the line. Sam literally had the mind set that nothing at all had happened after we caught him.

We are not 100% sure why he turned back, w know he does not like being alone if he does not have to be. We also know that he is not fond of the cattle across the street from us. Our best guess is that Sam did not want to go past the cattle alone, so he came back to be with the other horses.

That was the adventure of the week, besides that, not much else happened other than us getting to trot on him and a better bath time.

Now Sam has decided he likes the water, he is still unsure of the water on his butt, but he is not moving away from it now. Sam now requires multiple drinks from the water hose when he gets a bath. Sam is doing so well.

Sam, thanks for coming back!

Here are some of Sam's week four pictures