Day 13

So once again all I did was move around on the fillies' backs. It was raining for a little while and the paddock is all slush. Not very conducive to riding horses.
Aleythia wasn't with me today so I kept the fillies tied up to the wall. It wasn't too bad. Terry gave me a leg up. They were all kinda nervous.
You should have seen them in the pasture! They were bittin each other and rearing, running each other over... it was quite entertaining.
The other thing I did today was talk to Terry about fair week.
Whether or not we should take all four, and thus have to spend around 100 dollars on coggins tests, Bring only one, or bring two.
I'm leaning towards two. The two we want to sell. Which would be Frosty and Coffie.
So Frosty is small, but she has a whole lot of curiosity and courage.
Coffie is the tallest of the four, and is the most dependable.
The other two don't have so much of either of those. Terry wants to keep them because he likes the look of them, and eventually they will turn into dependable horses.
And it just so happens that Frosty and Coffie are the two horses we will be cantering tomorrow. I can't wait for that. I don't really know how it's going to turn out, but I think it will be fine.
We went and visited Flicka and her new pasture buddy, Toot. She's a grey mare that used to be a 4-H horse. I can't remember her breed.
But we saw MD there too. She lives there. We let her know about getting the fillies to canter, so that should prove entertaining. She show up around 4 and that's when we'll start.
We need to do it now because Saturday a friend of mine is getting married, and Sunday Aleythia is leaving for camp and will be gone two weeks. I don't want to wait that long.
Oh, oh, oh! I am really excited about fair time. Frosty is going to be Terry's youngest grandson's 4-H horse in cloverbuds. It's just a halter class, and Frosty will be wonderful for him. I'll even bet that they'll get a blue ribbon. Though the entire class will either get a blue, or a red. But still.
I'm looking forward to how she'll react to the crowd. First time in the show ring handled by a six year old. Perfect.
That means that people will get to see what an awesome two year old she is, and how well she does will help to get her sold.
I know you all are probably thinking she's too young to be sold, too inexperienced. Look at it this way. Flicka was also very young, she never bucked us off because she was scared. She was a decent trail horse. We'll have a whole summer to get them a little more muscled, a little bigger, and a little more dependable. Another thing is that more than likely they will be bought by a beginner rider who is either young, or just starting riding. That being the case the young rider will probably not ride very long or do anything really stressful, and the just starting rider will probably not do anything stressful either... And it'll be right before winter, which means they won't get ridden very long because of the cold. I'm slightly worried that they won't get ridden at all, but we'll just have to worry about that when we come to it.