Here is a photo of Nadia under saddle yesterday.  She actually was not very good yesterday, she is very herdbound to her pasture mate and was screaming and fairly tuned out to the trainer (she’s since been moved and now shares a pasture with Delilah, who gets along with her but mostly ignores her).  When the trainer would lean over her back and go to mount, she actually got a little nasty about it and would pin her ears, buck, and try to bite the trainer or the handler.  It was the first time the trainer had seen this type of behavior with her, but she was also very worked up about being separated from the other horses.  Today, they worked with her again and it was hailing and windy outside, so they decided to just work with her in the barn in a foaling stall.  They tried a different saddle on her to see if that helped, and this time she was completely relaxed about being mounted and the trainer was able to steer her around in circles in the stall.  She does seem to be a horse that has been ridden before, she doesn’t mind at all about being saddled or girthed up, and seems to understand how to steer and move off the leg, but she is also a very high-strung girl that when upset, is reactive, so the trainer is being very careful with her, especially after what happened with Calamity last summer.   We will take it slowly and carefully with Nadia.