Well I finally got out there and rode today!!! (this pic is of Easy with Meg riding)
It felt really good! I love this old mare, she is so good, I played with her on the ground a little before I saddled her, just to see how she felt. I also trimmed her toes a little, she was starting to get long. Some thrush starting from this recent rain, already, put some Thrush Buster in the grooves next to the frog.
Last year when I rode I felt a lot more disorientation while mounting and going around in a circle, it felt a lot better today! I had virtually no vertigo when I stepped up on her and none while riding! Did I say that it felt really good! I had forgotten how nice it is to ride a push button horse that will move just from a thigh clinch or press of your calf, she is still an amazing horse. Emma it seems fights you all the time, you have to really cue her hard to get her to move, constantly keeping her going with your body. Easy on the other hand is like riding a feather, so nice. In another life I would love to clone this mare, and get ahold of her before she learned a lot of her issues she came with as a 4 year old. She is a very very sensitive horse. She is now 25 1/2!!! She is stiffer than she used to be, especially holding a foot up long enough to trim, sometimes it takes her a minute or so to relax the muscles, and put a hind foot down. But she is so good and lets me know when she needs to put it down, she never pulls away.
It felt good to feel almost normal today, almost the old me. It was good.
Yay for you and Easy! Glad you are feeling well and able to enjoy a ride
ReplyDeleteI just got finished reading a post about how Stephanie got up on her horse and rode for the first time in 80 days since breaking her leg in a jumping accident. Now I'm reading your post about feeling so good about riding for the first time in a while. It must have been a special day.
ReplyDeleteYea!! I am so glad you got to get out and ride! She is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet mare! So glad it felt good to ride, and hope you get to ride again very soon!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back to the saddle, glad the vertigo stayed away. Easy sounds just wonderful!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty! Good work!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you were able to get in a good ride. What a beautiful old mare. Those are the best kind :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like Easy fits her name well. Isn't is great to have such wonderful rides on our horses? I'm so happy for you. What a good girl, Easy :)
ReplyDelete~Lisa
Nothing like a good old broke horse. Pretty mare, I love the beautiful star.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone! :0)
ReplyDeleteWell Lisa she actually got her nickname for being the nervous hyper type LOL, she still is, but she is rock solid! She is a good old mare. Her reg. name is Pines Bundle, someone wasnt very imaginative when they named her LOL her Dam was Fancy Bundle, and her Sire was Pines Get, go figure LOL. She went through a lot of owners before my Dad bought her as a 4 year old, I think there are 8 previous owners on her papers, and a couple that never transfered. I think if she had had a forever home as a youngster she wouldnt have been so scared and flighty. She is so sensitive, and some of the previous owners tried to sack her out and who knows what. But she turned into a good horse.