First Nighthorse Ride!!!!

Stretch!!!!!!!

Yesterday was amazing!!!!!! I had training from 9-11 and we had a parent meeting and got assigned to our trainers. Then we took our first quiz and did four practice sloppy copies. So only 4 diagrams this week :( After I raced to batons and we played some games. It was honestly boring. I did get a new red bling belt though!!!! SO PRETTY! I got to leave batons early to go get my horse! I checked the list and I HAD STRETCH!!!!! The tallest horse out at Westernaires and he's only 4! You can tell when you ride him that he's really young. Clumsy oaf. Hahahaha. The ride was amazing! Getting on was a challenge though lol. I had two cinch malfunctions during the ride. I was sure it was tight! We figured out that he lets his air out only when the rider gets on him. So as long as I have someone tighten it again I'll be good. It was just really embarrassing because it looked like I couldn't tighten a cinch. I've never had a saddle slide on me before...ever. You can see it in the picture above how his pad slid way forward. Stretch was amazing though! His trot is really bouncy and uncoordinated so that sucks. But it does force me to constantly adjust my equitation. His lope is to die for though! It's not graceful but it's fun to ride. I really hope I get him as my assigned horse because I think we could teach each other a lot of things! For the ride we just worked on drill maneuvers and basic circling and such. But it was so much faster and a lot more fun! We tried a whole team propeller and that was a train wreck but we ended up pulling it together. At the end of the ride we got Royal's Flag sequence to study for next week. I JI'd at 1 on Fast Eddie and then had Hickory for WL3. We rode our drill. I'll just say I'm glad I studied because hickory darted to the side at one point so I lost my position and ended up leading most of the drill! Hahahaha. It wasn't terrible but I did need my spurs on hickory. I had to take him home and unsaddle. I stayed up in the Red and got Skeeter for Vaulting. I rode trick for warm ups but could barely hold a stand so my partner rode trick for all the drills. I actually volunteered to call the drill! It wasn't terrible for my first time. Then we took care of Skeeter and that was my long exhausting first day in red division!!!!!!!