I might have bragged too soon on Draper. I rode her this morning, everything was going fine in the barn, walk, trot, canter both ways, trot over poles, usual stuff. I then took her to the field below the barn, she was acting a little uppity so I though I would trot her around up and down the hills to get some of the spunk out of her. Usually, if she gets to fast I can pull her around and she calms down immediately. But today, after 4 or 5 passes back and forth trotting, she just went full bore took off cantering and bucking. I thought I might could ride it out until I could stop her but no luck,
superman dived off the side. (the jeans were already torn). Glad I had my helmet on as usual. I laid there for a bit to take stock of my possible injuries and decided nothing was too bad. I hiked across the field, caught Draper and took her back to the barn where I let her run loose until she was pretty much out of breath. I got back on, walk, trotted and cantered, then working on the ground dropping milk jugs off her side so stuff falling off her wouldn't spook her. My only injury I think is a bad sprained left thumb. Two Aleve and an ice pack have helped. Now I have to rebuild my trust.
What the heck Draper?
ReplyDeleteI hate it when that happens. It takes so long to rebuild trust with a horse- (the horse gets over t before I do) I usually sell them with full disclosure as I am getting too old to deal with punk kid horses.
Glad you weren't too badly hurt and kudos to you for getting the job finished.
Goodness gracious. I'm glad you are ok.
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