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title: Team Onyx June 10, 2025 - Update!
description: Team Onyx June 10, 2025 - Update!
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# [Team Onyx June 10, 2025 - Update!](https://www.dakotashowdown.com/news/team-onyx-june-10-2025-update)

 Written by [Gentle Spirit Horses Rescue](https://www.dakotashowdown.com/news/author/gentle-spirit-horses-rescue) | Jun 15, 2025 3:27:24 AM

From trainer Jay Westerbur: 

Week 6 with [#dakotashowdownteamonyx](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/dakotashowdownteamonyx?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZVw0TfoIl73UVu4BjHHh6d3DGJLohI-8FHwD7NT4keaFQIvN7y1uRrEkL4ggmVhiMI5J8Bfe3omMoblR1qq1tTYq06TStRC07b2-A8v3Lu7rh2AznWONj00jrvcGH0Q3-JryDRCGje9rV3HPxTqnl_-mDtU7CDGgSM1odwtaKA7Qg&__tn__=*NK-R)

 

We put in a good shift this week.

 

- Sending over and around obstacles (poles, barrels, and the bridge)

- Getting used to the flag around AND touching him

- Started working on yielding hind and forequarters

- Getting groomed with a curry comb

- Starting to understand the “foot” cue

- Me scratching him all over

 

He has started to stop and think about scary things (most of the time, sometimes stuff is over his threshold). I was moving a jump standard across the arena (to use as my tripod lol) and he watched me from afar. Once I set it down to get it in position, he came over to check it out. I still had to move it so that it was in a good position to hold my phone, so he definitely didn’t like that. But once I backed away, he came to check it out by himself (with a couple snorts)! Once he checked it out he came back over to me.

 

[#dakotashowdownteamonyx](https://www.facebook.com/watch/hashtag/dakotashowdownteamonyx?__eep__=6%2F&__cft__[0]=AZWf1DE62-MUb_BtkJJpFQv9kS-L_6LmtVGHs0wMDuCGSJMXFQ_J9ecpPWIWXg75fNoCogoKpd3uK-Uck9IN6srsSCmYlg6YaZJOo1AW2X4mzNII3gYH_NhuoxlJ1gEOg1WXxx0Az8dC-4XUl6AVLpZSzVzhY9_61-YiGBzI07XdZQ&__tn__=*NK-R)

 

  

 

 

 

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