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She was being a serious brat in the beginning and trying to show off for Pete the Mule and was not listening to me at all. I got her listening after using my mean horse trainer voice. She did really good for like the first 5 minutes down the road then the wind started picking up and she got overstimulated. Then she saw a bus parked in a driveway and called it quits. She turned and started off towards home and I couldn't turn her around. So I decided to just keep her walking instead of trotting like she wanted to.

We were doing pretty good with that until a pickup truck came zooming past us and she almost bolted. I got her reined in after she went into a trot and we got back to the barn safe and sound without any actual incident.

We both did very well considering that:

1:) she's being ridden after 7 years of no work

2:) I have no idea if she's been road ridden

3:) I am still kind of a beginner at riding properly, especially with a horse that uses a hackamore

I was going to go riding again today, but I overslept and decided to just take the day off to be lazy lol

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[-] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Progress is progress. I'm sure you'll both be trotting with the best of them in no time. I always enjoy the Sandy posts.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Hey that’s so cool. I remember your posts from like almost a year ago or more, and you weren’t sure if she could ever be ridden. She was not looking so healthy and really didn’t look like anyone would be able to ride her.

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