Trail Ride :)

This week in mine and Indy's lessons I came early and helped with the begginer lesson that takes place in the morning before ours. We had a new student this week, I was honestly expecting her to be horrible because she has never ridden before, but honestly, she was actually quite good. It freaked her out a little when Jefferson put his head down to eat a, but that is to be expected.
After that lesson was over, my mom dropped by the barn and brought me and Sara (theeventingbelle.blogspot.com) some lunch, and we begged our trainer to go on a trail ride. We hadn't been on one with her in forever. She agreed and we all tacked up and left the barn and traveld up the rode a bit to a trail that leads down to a subdivion and the lake. We had an 8 year old student with us named Chloe. How she made it in the advanced lesson, I will never know... ANYWAYS, as soon as we started up the rode I whispered to Indigo, ''Oh great. Here we go..." the first trot we did she let her horse, Jefferson, get waaaaay behind the last horse in the line and he was just generally not happy. Then, after we made it down a very steep grade hill it was time for some conditioning work. My trainer was confident Chloe could keep up after her riding an absolutly crazy gelding named Shadow for about 6 months. She was wrong. As we were cantering/galloping up a little hill, Jefferson wanted to follow the pack and take off like the rest of the horses. Chloe had a death grip on the ''reins'' (she was riding in a hackomore) and Jeffferson couldn't get his head so he flipped out after being left behind. Sara and I we about 20 feet in front of my trainer who was in front of Chloe. I heard a series of screams and I looked back to see poor Chloe ''skiing'' on the ground behing Jefferson, still having a death grip on the reins. Sara and I whipped around once Jefferson had stopped (about 6-7 feet later) and helped with general cheering up as to where Chloe was pretty freaked out. She had EVERY right to be.
After that we rode down to the lake and trotted on the shore. It was nice. On our way back we did somemore trot/canters and then we headed home. It was a very nice, and humbling, experiance for all of us... Even Chloe.


Ps-- If your wonering how Mr. Indigo did, he was fabulous. A little excited though, nothing strange for trails. He had himself worked into a lather from just his brain being on the racehorse ''let me go. let me go. PLEASE GOD LET ME GO'' kind of thing. Nothing new.