Many rides

The past week has been SO awesome. At my show barn, i've ended up riding like ten times on show horses! Last saturday, I got to ride Elmo, which was GREAT. One of the best rides i've ever had on him, along with him being really well and cantering really well. Then, I got to just sit on this three year old named Romeo. (That totally counts.) Then I got to ride Juliette (haha yeah same owner,) Another three year old who was a lot greener and she only jumped around one time. THEN i got to ride this horse named Dillon in field by the barn and we even had him cantering out in the middle (when cantering is his biggest problem.) THENNNNNN I got to ride this girl's horse in his full bridle and it was totally amazing! He is a really cool horse! SO yeah, best day ever.

During the week, I rode Rojo twice and the first time, it was AWFUL. but the second time, I got on him bareback and we messed around for a little while and just had fun in the dark. I rode Elmo once during the week and we just trotted and took it easy. Then I got to ride a school/show horse named Sterling, then on Thursday I got to ride Dillon again and it was really fun!

Today, i had another awesome day at the show barn! Me and the other girl whose horse I rode last week (his name is Dash,) decided that we would ride and switch horses today. Now let me tell you, for ONCE, nothing has ever made me more happy than seeing someone else do good on my baby. Now i know i used to be selfish and never wanted anyone to ride him, but it seriously made my day to see someone ride him and enjoy him and love him. I had so much fun watching him go. She had a lap or two and I told her "You have to hold your curb and tickle the snaffle" and she did it and he just set his head back and marched through the ring. It was awesome, and she was like "dude you totally have his number and you know him so well" and it made me feel good :) she then let me ride her horse. While she was warming Dash up, i was waving alot of stuff at him to get him excited and he kept breaking into the canter while they were trotting, so of course, i was really nervous about riding him. But when we went to trot, after like one lap, we finally hit it off. AND he didn't break at the trot one time. My trainer looked over at her and was like "so how come he doesn't break when she rides him" and the whole time i was going *hehehehehe yeah :}* it was kinda cool hehe. but he was alot of fun too and overall it has been a great few days!

Tomorrow I don't have any lessons to teach, so i think i'm going to take Rojo on a trail ride with my neighbor and his horse.

A very long week!

Sooo on Friday, it was finally time to take Menassee (the COlt i broke for my senior project) home! I was so excited because i'd had him for a year and i'd worked so hard with him and i was excited because someone wanted to buy him!

That's the video of my whole project with Menassee! So yeah, big difference. Any ways, on Thursday i loaded the whole trailer ready for the 8 hour trip back to Georgia, and we were going to bring Rojo (So i was SUPER excited) and I missed school friday to get an early start.

Friday morning, I gave him a little *happy medicine* to perhaps help him get on the trailer, but it didn't really have much effect. We ended up trying for FOUR hours and he never got on. Being nice, i could get him to step up with his two feet, but never all of them.So then we tried force. Instead of running from a whip, he just runs at you full speed and tries to take you out! What a weirdo! We ended up having me, my mom, another girl, my neighbor, and two guys from the barn helping us. We even back him into a corner where he could only go straight and he wouldjump on and before we could close the door, he would shoot back off.

Menassee is so big that he can reach his nose out the escape door, and have his back feet off teh trailer still. We've hauled horses bigger than him, but they would go on the trailer to begin with. We just have a two horse slant load. But yeah, end of story, he didn't go on.

After the long, annoying day of FAILURE, i decided to get on rojo and let him eat some grass. I learned three very important lessons:

1. Riding in shorts and any western saddle is NEVER good, your legs get stuck!


2. Riding a hot, strong saddlebred in a halter, no matter how well trained he is, is only good every now and then because he WILL learn to take advantage of you.


3. Maybe i run rojo too much? Because he was all too happy to walk back home with his head down low and chill, rather than really working.

Any ways, that's how my weekend went! I also took Elmo out on a trail ride, just to let him chill!

Crazy Days

Sooo today was INSANE. My mom and I went and picked up my friend's horse from my show barn, and she was coming over to trail ride. We had a GREAT ride and both our horses were really enjoying it and we great friends, so after, we decided to turn them lose in the small pasture to cool off so we could go eat lunch, then we'd come back and haul him back to the show barn. Well my mom came running into the house screaming that he needed to come outside so i put flip flops on (over my socks) and my friend ran out barefoot because....HER HORSE WAS STUCK ON TE FENCE! Not only had he kicked at my horses, his butt was SITTING on the fence, and his front legs were standing and his butt was on the fence post and one leg was behind the top of the fence and the other was on the front and he was just standing there. Now is really wasn't funny, but it was really hard not to laugh at the way he was sitting. but we contained ourselves. :) So, we tried to get him down, but we were afraid if we pushed, he would fall, but he kinda just shoved himself off. Well then, he wouldn't put any weight on the foot. So we ended up sitting in the sun with him for four hours until the vet got there. The took Xrays and and decided that he just pulled a muscle in the leg and he has to be on stall rest for two weeks D: but (i know this is awful) atleast it wasn't our horse for once!

THEN, i was tied rojo at the hitching post, cause my friend's horse needed a friend while we was there, and he had some hay in a net to eat. After like 30 minutes of watching rojo, I asked my mom if she would watch him while i went to the house and grabbed the keys, and you know, before i even made it to the house Rojo had his foot caught in the hay bag and was rearing up to get out -.- yeah it was crazy lol i mean not even a minute after i left he was freaking out and being bad! it was very bad.


I didn't really have a good day, even though it started so good! But hopefully things will get better tomorrow :)