So me, I'm a teenager in Kansas. I got my horse four years ago and pretty much taught myself how to ride - improperly of course. I started riding lessons in March of this year and improved greatly, best decision ever, and I began learning to barrel racing in June (?) and hope to start showing late this year or next spring. Super excited about that!!
My horse is an 18 year old Arabian gelding named Roman. He's bay with a star and coronet. He's a super awesome horse, not the bomb-proof well trained kind of horse and I love that! We're still working through stuff like getting used to baths and different kinds of things. I ride Western and bareback, mainly bareback until we get the saddle fit!
Hopefully I will be introducing a new addition to the family soon! I'm hoping we'll get to look at horses tomorrow night but haven't heard anything yet.
So besides my horse and me, we have two Australian Shepherds named Bella and Dakota, two cats named Storm and Whiskers, 10 Angus cattle (soon like 18!!), and a few barn cats that stay outside. And my family is 8 in all, I have four brothers and one sister.
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Enough introductions, off to the fun parts. LOL
Tonight I was going to ride Roman but then kind of decided I wouldn't. I got him from the pasture and let him eat some clover in the hay field. My sister wanted to ride so I put her up on him bareback and led her around. Got back and my mom and aunt were going to go on a walk down the road. So plans changed and I decided to ride him down the road with them - bareback since the saddle hasn't been fit yet...
It had rained earlier today but was fair weather when I rode. We got down the road to where the neighbors with horses are (the ones with a foal I might've mentioned a few times?) and these two little dogs come running out to the road. They barked at my mom, aunt, and little brother but they kept walking but me, on a bareback horse that spooked at a barking dog last week I think, was a bit afraid Roman would bolt off. Not wanting to take that chance, I hopped off and led him. The dogs continued to bark and were on OUR side of the road but didn't come up and try to bite or whatever - Thank You so much for not doing that little doggies! Though I shouldn't have worried at all, Roman didn't care a bit and I was able to climb back on and continue on. Coming back the dogs came back but I just continued riding, but still afraid Roman would shoot off. Nope. Calmest boy ever! The dogs' owners came and got them but I was like "Hey, good training experience for him" (didn't say that really lol). He was the best!
We got back and I got off and hand-trotted him back to the barn since a storm was starting and my dad and uncle were yelling at all of us...(geez people, I'm comin', And I wasn't going to ride faster than a walk) It didn't start raining until Roman and I were in the barn. Brought him into the barn lot and he started to freak out because of the rain hitting the roof (pretty loud) but I was able to get the halter off. I didn't have any treats on me and was wanting to get to the house, he wouldn't come over to the gate anyways for the bit of hay I had so he'll have to go with "Good boy" this time!
Still I'm pretty proud of him with the dog incident. The one where he spooked at a dog was we were riding up the road back home and a truck drives by with the dog in the back. A big dog too. It barked, Roman spooked but didn't bolt off, he never does. I don't blame him though, I didn't even see the dog until I heard it bark.
So that's all I have for today. May post tomorrow if we do see some horses or whatever. So, hope ya'll enjoyed this so far!!
~Kate and Roman~
My horse is an 18 year old Arabian gelding named Roman. He's bay with a star and coronet. He's a super awesome horse, not the bomb-proof well trained kind of horse and I love that! We're still working through stuff like getting used to baths and different kinds of things. I ride Western and bareback, mainly bareback until we get the saddle fit!
Hopefully I will be introducing a new addition to the family soon! I'm hoping we'll get to look at horses tomorrow night but haven't heard anything yet.
So besides my horse and me, we have two Australian Shepherds named Bella and Dakota, two cats named Storm and Whiskers, 10 Angus cattle (soon like 18!!), and a few barn cats that stay outside. And my family is 8 in all, I have four brothers and one sister.
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Enough introductions, off to the fun parts. LOL
Tonight I was going to ride Roman but then kind of decided I wouldn't. I got him from the pasture and let him eat some clover in the hay field. My sister wanted to ride so I put her up on him bareback and led her around. Got back and my mom and aunt were going to go on a walk down the road. So plans changed and I decided to ride him down the road with them - bareback since the saddle hasn't been fit yet...
It had rained earlier today but was fair weather when I rode. We got down the road to where the neighbors with horses are (the ones with a foal I might've mentioned a few times?) and these two little dogs come running out to the road. They barked at my mom, aunt, and little brother but they kept walking but me, on a bareback horse that spooked at a barking dog last week I think, was a bit afraid Roman would bolt off. Not wanting to take that chance, I hopped off and led him. The dogs continued to bark and were on OUR side of the road but didn't come up and try to bite or whatever - Thank You so much for not doing that little doggies! Though I shouldn't have worried at all, Roman didn't care a bit and I was able to climb back on and continue on. Coming back the dogs came back but I just continued riding, but still afraid Roman would shoot off. Nope. Calmest boy ever! The dogs' owners came and got them but I was like "Hey, good training experience for him" (didn't say that really lol). He was the best!
We got back and I got off and hand-trotted him back to the barn since a storm was starting and my dad and uncle were yelling at all of us...(geez people, I'm comin', And I wasn't going to ride faster than a walk) It didn't start raining until Roman and I were in the barn. Brought him into the barn lot and he started to freak out because of the rain hitting the roof (pretty loud) but I was able to get the halter off. I didn't have any treats on me and was wanting to get to the house, he wouldn't come over to the gate anyways for the bit of hay I had so he'll have to go with "Good boy" this time!
Still I'm pretty proud of him with the dog incident. The one where he spooked at a dog was we were riding up the road back home and a truck drives by with the dog in the back. A big dog too. It barked, Roman spooked but didn't bolt off, he never does. I don't blame him though, I didn't even see the dog until I heard it bark.
So that's all I have for today. May post tomorrow if we do see some horses or whatever. So, hope ya'll enjoyed this so far!!
~Kate and Roman~