After last week's lesson, I rode Berry 4 times. Which isn't riding the snot out of her, like I would have wanted, but 4 times is okay I guess. The last time I rode her, Sunday, she was pretty calm, seemed reasonable, and was keeping a steady pace and not charging around. What really happened was[...]
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Technically it was my lesson as well, but really, I think this one benefited Berry more. I don't know what happened, but my usually docile mare had been transformed into the naughty baby that she never was. She had been broke to race at age 2, and after being an immediate track failure, was broke w/[...]
Continuing on an awesome Memorial Day weekend of horses, on Sunday, the horses, Dave and I took a field trip to James Long Park in Haymarket to meet the talented rider, super fun, amazingly awesome in every way, Olivia of hellomylivia and take her on her first official trail ride! If you don't[...]
I spent some time with Berry, as I often do. I wanted to appreciate our time together, but she decided the best activity we could do is get excited and leap gracefully through the air. Unfortunately she's not particularly graceful, nor athletic. The excitement was short lived. Then all she co[...]
I was playing with my camera again and now have lovely photos of my thoroughbred mare Berry. She's an ex racehorse who raced one race and didn't even finish. Her owners decided she wasn't going to make it as a racehorse. So she made the journey to a friend who started under her under[...]