Today we packed up Dewey and Daisy and headed over to Sue's place to ride with Amy and Zora. Kimberly Hale Photography was also there to document the morning. I was due for an easy couple rides, which is why I chose those two horses. While we were there I also hopped on Zora who is recovering from an altercation with her paddock gate (baby horses - ugh) to see how she was moving.
When we got there, first to go ride was Dewey. Since it was purely a fun experience field trip I rode him a little in their outdoor arena, then their indoor arena, and then went for a walk in their back pasture to cool out.
We did have a little kerfuffle at the start of our canter. Dewey immediately started shaking his head left to right vehemently swinging his ears from side to side. I stopped him and scratched each of his ears since it seemed like his ears were bothering him. We picked up the canter again, and he started it again. I finally realized the string of beads in his browband had jumped out of the channel, and was smooshing his ears! The beads unclip out of the leather browband, so I just removed them completely and put them in my pocket. Instant fix, problem solved! Thank goodness Dewey always tells me. If you zoom in on this above photo, you can see the beads lying across his ears. No wonder he was shaking his head!
Next we headed over to their indoor arena and worked a little in there.
I had a chuckle as I edited the photos when I realized I'm so tall, and Amy's so short, that with me on Daisy the pony and Amy on Zora her draft cross - we end up nearly the same height anyway!
As we were warming up unfortunately Zora's roommates went for a mad dash around their front pasture. Daisy didn't care, but Zora did a little spook and darted forwards. Amy has a really solid balanced seat from all her many years in the saddle and rode it just fine. Zora's draft brain then kicked in and she decided it wasn't that big a deal and immediately went back to walking along sedately.
Once we'd hacked around in the arena a bit we went out to the back fields for a little mock trail ride. I love the photos, it's such fun to have pictures of riding with friends.
Lastly I took Daisy over a couple barrels in the arena. We've been schooling lead changes over fences at home and I wanted her to have the same experience in a new place.
A super fun morning - thank you to Kimberly Hale Photography for the incredible images!
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