Neighborhood Trail Ride on New Year’s Eve: Skateboard park with skaters, small waving gas line flag markers,, timber wilderness, new home construction with basement, gravel piles, dirt piles, and wide dirt tunnel. Emma, the German Shepherd dog, made her startle once. Emma usually travels a football field behind Fancy, but she got closer. (Fancy delights in treating Emma like a cow in a cutting class so Emma usually keeps a distance!)
We traveled at the flat foot walk most of the ride. We switched into fox trot for a half mile, tried and failed at canter going away from home and at the very end, did a slow walk home (Fancy was exhausted and calm!!)
Have I mentioned Fancy is a perfect horse for me? Oh, I have, several times you say…..
Fancy is normally an arena horse, but kept me alive in the neighborhood!