Running Wild!

It was a day I felt like riding. So I got the sweet Mary-Ann out of the barn, tacked her up and brought her to the arena. She has of course been ridden before, but it has been years since she last had a rider on her back, and she is really fat, so I took it slow. Normally I don't ride the training-horses, but I really, really like Mary-Ann and felt a need to be the first one on her back.

She was really fine to ride. Her balance wasn't great, but we ended up with some steps of cantering on a straight line, to make it easy for her. But she really wanted to turn quite a lot, so I let her and tried to support her as much as possible, so she didn't fall.

Anyhow... everything went very well, and she was great. I'm already looking forward to her having more balance, so I can introduce her to jumping. I'm sure she will like it. I have never ridden a curly before, so that was a new experience. She is quite compact, and it's almost like riding an Icelandic Horse or a Fjord, just tall like a 'real' horse.

I hope she can make a rider happy when she is up for grabs in mid June, early July.

Ok. Kato (read: Kilborn's Xato) isn't a big show jumper, but he thinks it's a little fun, as long as the obstacles isn't too big. He actually like this kind of exercise, and he gets more stamina and a better canter after he has done it. He is kind of great. Even if he isn't good at it, he tries anyways. He got lots of carrots afterwards, because he was so good!

I kind of had lots to do all day, and had ridden almost all our horses in the stable, but I don't have pictures of all of it. Anyways, Emma took some pictures of Lille (read: TLF Limited Edition) and I, when I demonstrated for her how you ride with cordeo.

Lille was a tryout, and afterwards Emma tried ridding him a little with it. Didn't go that well, so I took over the powerful stallion and showed her how to again. Ended up with me almost falling of Lille's back, and then hugging him, because it wasn't his fault. I need to train my balance, lol.