Rachel has gone right back to square one in her training; #1 because she likes to make sure for herself that all areas have been covered and #2 because the work that was initially done with Cat was sporadic at best because of weather conditions and the lack of an arena.  Yesterday Rachel put her dummy lower body on the saddle on Cat and she was quite good about it.  What she has done is taken an old pair of blue jeans and stuffed them and tied them in the appropriate places so that they are like real legs hanging down the side of the horse and then lunges her with them.  She was quite impressed with Cat for doing the right thing whenever she would get concerned about these legs (which was usually when she was rounding a corner as they would swing out further).  What Cat would do was slow from a trot to a walk instead of spooking or flipping out and running away.  This really impressed Rachel that she uses her mind this way because as she said if something scares your horse you want them to slow down and think it through not run off out of control.  Rachel introduces one and only one new thing every day in their sessions as she says you don't want them to get bored but you also don't want to overwhelm them either.  Even though she says Cat is so good and so accepting that she could probably give her more but she does not want to push her and then have something which shouldn't be a problem end up being a problem because it put Cat into overload.  Rachel figures she should be on Cat's back by the end of this week at the latest.  She will continue to work her until she gets her walk, trot, canter down pat and then we will give her a holiday for a couple of months.