Post by trista on May 23, 2007 12:22:12 GMT -5
;D SO this morning Em and I decide to saddle up the horses and go on the trail next door. A subdivision was going to go up but it fail through. So there is a drive way about 1/4 mile deep then you have some trials. We mainly go on one particular one. They were made by people who like to hunt and ride four wheelers and dirt bikes. We take the horses down them.
On our way down our drive way my sister decides to come along with us so she gets on my horse behind the saddle and off we go. Going down the drive next door towards the back (close to the trails) some people have made it their own personal dump site. Which is not very nice. This particular morning we noticed someone threw away a neon green plastic dude holding up a yellow and black SLOW sign. So as we were riding to the trail we made a comment on how we needed something like that in our drive way by the school house. we continue on the trail my sister not used to riding would not let me canter or gallop and even our trot was limited due to her being uncomfortable on the back of my saddle. So we went slow through the trails turned around and came back.
On our way back up the drive. Emily said let's just take this green slow guy. She volunteered Gabrielle to hold the plastic dude. So Emily handed the neon dude to Gabrielle and everything is good. We start back home (walking of course) and we are just making conversation when out of the corner of my eye I see a flash of Neon and my horse bolts off from walk to gallop in 1 second flat. I knew right away she probably caught site of the plastic at her eye level and got spooked. I am pulling on the reins as hard as I can but we are still just a going. My sister drops the plastic dude and so now we have a strange sound behind us. Em's horse bolted with my horse and so she is over there trying to stop her horse as well. We must have been pulling hard on the reins for a good 45 seconds or so before they stopped. I enjoyed the gallop but all I could think of was that my sister might not can stay on much longer. LOL! Might be totally weird but when she took off like that and i was trying to stop her I pulled my feet out of the stir-ups might be from being used to riding bare back. Anyway we made it through our first Spook and it was not bad at all, for us. My sister got off the horse at home walking funny and said she was already sore. I was real glad she did not fall off. She has come off horses a few times but never mine. Coming off her is a big drop.
So after all of that Emily and I had adrenaline pumping through our bodies we can only imagine what the horses felt like. I am glad my sister dropped the plastic dude. I can't imagine what would have happened if she was still hanging on to him with her arm flapping him around. Di would have been like "AGH ... he is still there and would have kept on going. LOL! Well this day's ride was definitely exhilarating. Now I have a greater understanding of people in the movies who get runaway with their horse. Sometimes it takes a little while before they will stop after getting spooked.
On our way down our drive way my sister decides to come along with us so she gets on my horse behind the saddle and off we go. Going down the drive next door towards the back (close to the trails) some people have made it their own personal dump site. Which is not very nice. This particular morning we noticed someone threw away a neon green plastic dude holding up a yellow and black SLOW sign. So as we were riding to the trail we made a comment on how we needed something like that in our drive way by the school house. we continue on the trail my sister not used to riding would not let me canter or gallop and even our trot was limited due to her being uncomfortable on the back of my saddle. So we went slow through the trails turned around and came back.
On our way back up the drive. Emily said let's just take this green slow guy. She volunteered Gabrielle to hold the plastic dude. So Emily handed the neon dude to Gabrielle and everything is good. We start back home (walking of course) and we are just making conversation when out of the corner of my eye I see a flash of Neon and my horse bolts off from walk to gallop in 1 second flat. I knew right away she probably caught site of the plastic at her eye level and got spooked. I am pulling on the reins as hard as I can but we are still just a going. My sister drops the plastic dude and so now we have a strange sound behind us. Em's horse bolted with my horse and so she is over there trying to stop her horse as well. We must have been pulling hard on the reins for a good 45 seconds or so before they stopped. I enjoyed the gallop but all I could think of was that my sister might not can stay on much longer. LOL! Might be totally weird but when she took off like that and i was trying to stop her I pulled my feet out of the stir-ups might be from being used to riding bare back. Anyway we made it through our first Spook and it was not bad at all, for us. My sister got off the horse at home walking funny and said she was already sore. I was real glad she did not fall off. She has come off horses a few times but never mine. Coming off her is a big drop.
So after all of that Emily and I had adrenaline pumping through our bodies we can only imagine what the horses felt like. I am glad my sister dropped the plastic dude. I can't imagine what would have happened if she was still hanging on to him with her arm flapping him around. Di would have been like "AGH ... he is still there and would have kept on going. LOL! Well this day's ride was definitely exhilarating. Now I have a greater understanding of people in the movies who get runaway with their horse. Sometimes it takes a little while before they will stop after getting spooked.
