Strawberry, Van, and Me

Today I went to see my horse for the first time in 9 days. We started off going on a little trail around the field, and there were some new round bales that Van did NOT like, so we had about 10 minutes of a battle of wills, his will being "turn and run!!" and my will being "I don't think so!" and I eventually won with a little bit of "HOLD ON!" and persistence. Nothing bad happened, he's only 2 and he was brave enough to go all by himself with me and Strawberry, and there were round bales in places there shouldn't be, very very scary. So he did do a little bit of bad, try to turn and run, and a half rear, more like a pop-up, but we eventually got past it and in the end I got him to go close enough to sniff and once he figured out what they were I told him, "Now don't you just feel like a complete retard."

We only did a walking trail so when I got back to the barn I went into the indoor arena (the wind is blowing so hard you can't hear anything outside) and did some ring work, walk, trot, canter. Strawberry was with me today, and she adores Van (as he does her) so she'd follow both of us around trying to keep up and stay out of the way, Van was so nervous of running her over it was very cute.

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Sports

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• Twisted
• Van
• Gogh
• Paint
• Horse
• Bareback
• Yellow
• Labrador
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• friends