Time to Roll: First Ride

Friday, October 19, 2012

First Ride

The first time you throw a leg over a young horse. It's an amazing experience. What makes it even better is if that said young horse accepts you as a rider. They don't move, they don't pinn their ears. It just might be the biggest accomplishment you will ever have when training a young horse.

But anyway, Coffie had her first saddle and ride today. I say ride, but it technically wasn't really a ride. Aleythia just threw a leg over and sat there. Coffie didn't move. Toffy also had a first today. We did the Jeffrey's Method with her. I can x off that on my goals now! The one problem we had was that she is way to big. I don't know why, but I can't jump high enough to be able to lay across her back. It might be because it's akin to trying to get on a barrel that's four feet off the ground. There's nothing to hold onto. Do you see my dilema? But we were still able to do it. When I got on I had Aleythia give me a leg up. I think this actually helped, because then I could control how heavily I came down on her back. I don't seem like a predator if I land softly. With jumping you don't have that control. So she wasn't frightened the first time I got on and I was able to still get her used to something coming down on her back, but I did it after she was okay with my weight. It worked out pretty good. But man, I think I need to get some leg muscles. That or grow taller. And guess what! I have pictures!

This was how Frosty was when we came into the barn. I went over to pet her and I noticed that her breathing was weird. It almost sounded like weasing. Other than the fact that I have never seen her lay down at 3 in the afternoon and her breathing was weird, she seemed fine. She didn't act like she was in pain and got up and started eating after a little while.

Sorry for blurry pirctures, It was cloudy, cold, and wet outside (YAY!!!) so we did everything inside. And I truly am happy that we are not having nice weather. We are in serious need of rain.