That was the question asked of me today. I've ridden horses a whole two times in my life and not very good at balance. No saddle, no stirrups, no bit. Thankfully she gave me reins, lol! This was my FIRST horse riding lesson, ever! I've wanted to ride horses since I was probably 3. But my parents opted to let me piggyback with my older sister's dance lessons...I still haven't forgiven them for that. I was always a tomboy, a country girl. Not into this girly crap. I am 30 now and a 10 year old daughter of my own. Been waiting till I had the budget to do this and found a great ranch locally that does classes. She is very much about horse and rider being one. About learning horse behavior and care. When I first got there, she handed us the halter and line and told us, "Go get him"...We had to get him out of the pasture ourselves. She showed us how to tie him up, groom him and a bit of tacking. But decided to do the bareback instead. She is more into bareback and no bit riding. Very homeopathic too. Scooter, the horse I rode, for instance, can't be vaccinated. It causes his thyroid to balloon out and you may see that in some pics below, so she does all homeopathic treatments over injections and it does them all just fine. I love the place. Its a dream come true to find it.
Now I can truly say...I need to get off my high horse.
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His name is Scooter, he's a gorgeous buckskin!
At one point while my daughter was riding, she brought him around and he saw the stable door was open and took off at a nice fast trot, but she was able to slow him down and stop him, eventually, lol.
This is Boogie, a mini-horse. He was SO cute and SO spunky! He would get all the other horses running around
