White Star Bareback Ride

Well tonight was interesting for me... We all made a pact in line not too fall off (foreshadowing!!!!) So then the head wrangler asked me who I wanted. I asked for Utah Girl but she said no :( So she said Yukon #84. Joy. One of the top 3 most bouncy horses at Westernaires. So then it took 3 trips too and from his pen. Trip 1: I go to get Yukon and his pen is locked. Trip 2: Wrangler said someone down there had the key Trip 3: Finally got the key and unlocked his pen. So then he was absolutely filthy. I got as much as I could off and bridled him. It was so nice not having to saddle. Then we helped the White Knights and headed out. Yukon is bony!!!! Oh my gosh. Probably just as bad as JD. It hurt just sitting on him. Yukon also has this over exaggerated walk that kept slamming me into his withers. It was just an overall painful ride. I was bouncing all over. So we warmed up a little and went into standard drill. I was in 1st 4 :) That went really well. I just had a hard time keeping up cause Yukon hurt so much. He was not listening like at all. He would not slow down. He must have been out for a while or something. So then we lined up for our drill. I got too call :) I was happy because I finally got to call after show and it made me feel like Captain. So we went through our drill. It went pretty well. Again struggled due to unbearable pain. Lined up for drill 2 and was 1 - 3. During star I started to slip and caught myself after I was halfway off. Danielle yelled it's not trick riding! It was really funny. 2nd Lieutenant (Westernaire Lover called) She did great up until Out of circle. She called it at the wrong time and it threw off the rest of the drill but we made it all work :) As a bonus she got to be outside of propeller. So after that drill came some loping. I went for it. So loping is always easier but remember how Yukon wasn't stopping. So Westies Girl fell off. Danielle said I didn't give you permission to fall off! LOL. So then we loped again. So she yelled halt ho and I tried to pull Yukon to a stop but it only brought him to a really fast trot which was almost worse and I felt my self go. I tried to swing my leg over but came unbalanced and tumbled backwards crashing into Apache's legs. It was a pretty soft landing despite how it sounds. Danielle said I didn't give you permission either. I just laughed and got a leg up and away we went. I took my spurs off as well to see if that would help. However I did not lope again. Not because I was scared or didn't want to because Yukon wasn't listening and I didn't think it was safe to me or the rest of my teammates. So then we had one more fall. 3 falls is not bad at all. After that we made our lines and dismounted. All our horses were taken by Chaparrals so I got to go home :) I am gonna be SO SORE tomorrow.