Today I went horseback riding at Claudia's. It was fun! I helped comb out Shiloh's mane. I mounted, and rode out into Claudia's small riding pen. "Remember what I taught you?" She asked. I had remembered.
I walked around on Shiloh, who behaved well. Then Claudia let me trot, and man, is that bouncy! It was kind of scary, and I didn't enjoy doing that as much as I think I would cantering. My goal was to trot Shiloh around close to the rail without letting him trail off, and boy, that was hard! I kept trotting him, but he would trail off from the rail and go straight to Claudia and stop. He was lazy, but fun to ride. I almost got him to go near the rail, but didn't quite. I dismounted correctly, as Claudia had shown me. I led Shiloh around to the place where we untacked him. Claudia showed me how to take the bridle off, and how to untack the horse. I carried the saddle, (which was pretty heavy) and took it to Claudia's tack room (tack is the things you put on a horse to ride: saddle, saddle blanket, bridle, etc.) I examined all the saddles and bridles closely, and then went into Claudia's house to look around for a few minutes. My mom bought a book from her that she had written herself about horses. I'm glad I'm friends with her (and her horses, too!) Her house is lovely, with the view of her horses' field from the window. Oh, I forgot, since I've been so busy talking about Claudia and the horses, I forgot to mention that my mom came with me, and my brothers all got to stay with Noni. Well, have a very nice day, you all!
My mom is going to post the pictures of this for me tonight. :-)
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