Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Mobstacles!

We had a busy four day weekend.

We went to Little Manatee River State Park on Saturday to the Poker Ride. We took Annie and she did very well. It took about 10 minutes to get her in the trailer to go but there was no panic. Just a stubborn delay. She was very excited in a happy way once she got there. Ears alert, looking around without apprehension. She was polite to the other horses there when we crossed paths with them. We were careful not to overload her with being too close to too many but I think she would have been fine if we had. We rode less than an hour and then tied her up with T and they had some hay while we ate lunch. It was a good day!

On Sunday, we took T and Cody to the Alafia River State Park for the Mobstacle. Again, we didn't compete but we paid our entry and took a leisurely ride on the Long trail (9 miles, give or take). However, we got lost in the process. Figures eh?

Cody and T were very good though they got irritable at one point because we had been down the same trail about three times. They started getting nippy at each other. But once we got back on the right track they were happy again. They both gaited pretty well and there was no silly spooking or anything.

It was a very pleasant weekend of riding!

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