Can you go any slower?

I’m going to make this entry short (for me) because I actually have work to do today.

Last night we took Abby to drill practice. She hesitated a few times before loading in the trailer but quickly decided she’d like to be in the trailer instead of outside of it so in she went and off to practice we headed. DH went along and took Max so he could ride a bit before practice started.

When we arrived at the arena we unloaded and started tacking up. Abby was great. She didn’t look around, get nervous, etc. She just stood and waited to be tacked up. DH took off into the arena while MIL and I finished up. Once Abby was ready to go we went in and walked around the arena once before I mounted up.

Once I got on her I quickly learned that we need to work on 2 things – her gas pedal and her steering (kind of important). LOL She was pretty good around the other horses. She pinned her ears a few times and humped her butt up once but she quickly relaxed.

When we started the first run (at a slow canter/trot) she gave a little kick up with her heels when I asked her to go into the lope but then she finally went into it. She was great when the other horses would come at her, behind her, etc. but man is she slow!

We only trot/cantered it once because another horse was sore and we had another new horse to work in. Then we switched to our team of 10 and walked it. The clouds were moving in so we all untacked and headed for home. She loaded up nicely but we do need to work on that some this week at home.

I need to take her over on a weekend and work on the passenger lesson and on post to post. She’s still a good pony though!