Trotting on the trail

July 24, 2010

Today I rode Blossom in the arena for a while doing different trotting activities. Then she told everybody else (not riding) to get their horses and that we were going to go to the apple tree. I was the only one riding out there. Tracee took a horse named Tara (yes a mustang) and the other girls took their horses. This was my first time on the trail without someone walking next to me (and Blossom). It was really fun because on our way to the apple tree there's a big ditch where it goes down and comes back up and then goes down a little bit. It was really fun because she trotted the ditch kind of fast because she didn't want to get left behind, even though Tara was the only one in front of her...and everyone else was behind her. 

Then to go back to the barn, we went the long way and went all the way around the back vineyard to go to the barn instead of just passing by the other horses' stalls to get to the barn. Tracee told me to trot and pass Tara and go a little farther up ahead so I did. It was really fun. I felt proud because I knew that Blossom trusted me so much to leave the herd from somewhere that she had never been before!

Also at one point there was a big spot where the vineyard was taken out and there are these big trailers (not horse but almost twice the size). Blossom and Tara and Dusty figure-eighted them; I also trusted her a lot because there were these two big, scary, echoing and kind of close together trailers. Then we went back to the barn and I got off and groomed her and took her back to her pasture. 

What a big step!