I love her hooves ! Next trim she gets I need to get a photo of them . She has a small ' deformityweak spot ' on her rear right hoof but the farrier thinks that ' s because she injured that leg right after we got her . She just had her 3 rd trim and he said it looks much better . I ' m still really new to this , my trainer is the wonderful guy who instructed me and got Illya to where she is . Yeah , I did the work but he knew the steps . If you are in the Colorado area I can ' t recommend him enough . We did a lot of walktrotcanter , direction changes , yielding hind quarters , yielding front quarters , yielding to pressure bending . For the first couple months my routine was go catch her in the outdoor pen , which at first involved cornering her , and then take her into the round pen . I ' d then start with walktrot and changing directions . Her direction change is done by switching hands on the rope , stepping in front of her , and then stepping back to draw her into us . Lots of direction changes . She ' s was a bit reluctant to canter in the round pen so I didn ' t do much of that at first , but she does stop on a dime . All you need to do to stop her is check her head gently , bend over a bit , and stare at her butt . I ' d do an hour of ground work with her every time I saw her . It took lots of time and patience but eventually we were able to go for walks outside of the round pen . By the time we did the first ride I had been ready for a few weeks and she had probably been ready longer . But by giving it that time it was completely uneventful . After the first ride her attitude towards me changed a ton . She was still a bit skittish and stand off ish before that , but obviously she realized we don ' t want to hurt her and that we aren ' t so bad . Now she ' s basically in my pocket whenever I ' m there . She ' s like that with my fiancee as well , and to some extent our trainer , but not with most other people . I have some videos of our ground work if you ' d like to see them . I could also give you my trainers name and you could ask him questions . I ' m sure he ' d answer them even if you ' re not in the area . He ' s a fantastic guy and without him Illya and I wouldn ' t be nearly as far along as we are . He has this wonderful talent of being able to train a horse through the human .