Friday 2 October 2009

Wednesday

Today i went Horse riding with Georgia. Georgia goes riding anyways but today it was a junior day, so Georgia took me. Georgia was a leader there. First We brushed the horses, them cleaned out that hooves (the hooves were very smelly), after the hooves we watched one of the leaders show us how to put the saddle on and bridle on then she went and did some walks, trots, rising trots and canters around the arena. She was very good. It was then Lunch. Me and Georgia just had a buttered bread roll, everyone else had loads. This one girl had, sushi, popcorn, pita bread, yogurt, apple, juice....and so on, which made me and Georgia look very stupid.


After lunch we put the saddles and bridles on then walked our horses into the arena. My horse was called Prince Charles, but everyone calls him Charlie. I got on the horse after walking it around. Georgia lead him around all the poles, then she decided to still hold onto the rope but not lead him and i had to turn him, it was really fun. Then we all had a 10 minuet break.

The riding instructor told me I might need to go on a different saddle because that saddle wasn't making me sit up properly, so she decided to get her saddle out and put me on Peanut because the girl who was on Peanut wanted to go on Charlie. So she put her saddle on Peanut for me.


After the break I was on Peanut. Peanut was much less fidgety so i had a very smooth ride as charlie always shook his head and stopped all the time. It was very easy to lead Peanut. After a while i could feel peanut getting faster and so could Georgia even though i was leading the horse and Georgia was just holding the rope it in case. Peanut really wanted to trot.

The riding instructor was teaching everyone how to trot by clipping some rope onto the horses bridle and letting the horses trot in a circle, She missed me out by accident, but later when it was time to all come out of the arena and put the horses back she let me and a little boy still ride. The little boys horse was Sam and the little girls horse was Smokey. Smokey and Sam were annoying each other and starting cantering after each other, so the little girl and boy kept trying to hold on and stop them. It happened two times. The little boy fell of on both times but the girl fell off only the once, so the riding instructor let the girl have a ride with all of us then take all the horses out and let the boy have a ride on his own, but she left me in there I'm not sure why. I was weaving in and out of the tire's and pole's.

I kicked Peanut to make her go faster then we started trotting, It was really fun because i hadn't been taught how to. I'm very proud of me and Peanut now. We carried on trotting and i eventually got her to trot even going through the tire's and pole's. It was so fun, I wish to join horse riding :D

well love you all xxx

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