First Ride

The farrier was late last week.  We already had the horses caught.  I told J he might as well go ahead and ride while we were waiting.  

 I have ridden Brother a hand full of times this year but this was J's first time on since last fall.

 I think he was pleasantly surprised at how well Brother did.   He acted like he was ready to go to a show and win western pleasure.  One little bobble about being suborn about loping once but other than that it was 30 minutes of pleasure.   J had to ask a couple of times, "are you sure he is trotting?"

Now that he has his shoes on maybe J can work out some more times to ride.

And for her second trim, Draper was an angel again.  She acted better than some of the big horses.