We rode tonight with a saddlebred show horse. Yep We had a great time with Katie and Feather.
We rode. One of us rested while the other rode. We thought it might be good if Sue and I rested while Feather cantered.
It was hot and rest periods were essential
Katie hasn’t seen Sue and I together for a while and she could tell the difference in my tension..none. We marveled over how different Sue and I both look..and it a fairly short time period.
I told Katie that Sue was was getting too close. Katie was shocked. She decided to run off from us. She told Feather to speed up into his fast trot. She looked back and we were right on her rear…like a tail gaiting car. Only it was Sue trying to gait right into Feather’s tail.
Sue and I fox trotted. We broke into a nice banging hard trot. At the same spot in the arena..an open spot where something caught her eye..we dropped into the pace. I had to slow her down when we paced and fix it. We fixed the pace, slightly cut a couple of corners and we were back tail-gaiting Feather again.
We kept that up for quite a while. I don’t think I’ve ever rode Sue at speeds like that for more than a half length down the larger arena. Wowsa!
Eventually, our fox trot smoothed out and we were still going at break neck speed.
Good Golly Ms Molly! We are going to do more of that!
Bring on the Saddlebreds!