What a day, What a Mustang :) We loaded up early and hauled to Equine Country USA, a farm ~an hour up the road where they were having an open horse show. I first gave Lindsay a quick bath before we left home and was so pleased to see she was oblivious to Samantha P (our pig) Sharing her bath water...under her feet LOL Her relationship with Samantha P has come a long way since May 8th! After our bath she loaded in the trailer and on the road we went. She hauled pretty quiet and after a bit of confusion explaining to the show staff why her coggins looked so funny we were on the grounds.
Fortunately for use it was really a small show, really perfect facility w/ multiple arenas to ride in. I unloaded and tacked her up beside the trailer, hopped on and off we walked to the ring. She really seemed excited and walked through the dark, shady path from the parking to the ring with more forward than I expected...she seemed ready to check out the scene. We first rode over and into their 60 foot round pen and trotted and loped a few circles..we then headed to the big warm up pen and walked round and round soaking up all the sights. There was an announcers stand that stood tall beside us that was our primary focus of attention, but it became less interesting w/ each passing. We trotted lots of large circles, did some serpentines and even trotted all the way around on the rail. They had some poles on the ground so we took advantage and trotted over those...we even picked up a canter and made quite a few laps around the arena..we included some poles in the canter as well. I asked Lindsay for a stop out of a pretty forward canter and man did she tuck her hind end deep. She even slide a little and walked with her front in remaining forward in her stop. What a natural she is, I was so impressed! Her talent, try and responsiveness makes her so much fun to sit on no matter what we do.
Once they finished up the hunters we went in the main ring during open arena and checked it out. She looked at a few things like the mailbox on the rail and ribbons at the in gate, but after one or two looks she was over it. She really was not to phased by the other horses, but there weren't many of them..she is mostly preoccupied with strangers. She really did much better with that too though, she got rather close to the rail even w/ people leaning on it towards the end.
A friend offered us her horse ball to take home and play with! I am so excited!!! Not sure that Lindsay is, but I think she will be. She has developed much more of a curiosity for things now that we ride out of the round pen so often. She loves the great outdoors no doubt!
After we finished up I sponged her off and she drank lots from her water tub!! That is way exciting and a huge asset to her safety on the road! She loaded up well and homeward bound we went.
I let her stay in front of her fan the rest of the day and she really seemed much more content there than yesterday. I turned her out tonight and she seemed thrilled to get to roll really good in her black Kelly dirt!
She continues to amaze me...I am going to have to get a thesaurus to keep from being so repetitive when bragging on her, but I simply can't say enough. I love each and every little thing about her. Can not wait 'till tomorrow!
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