Cisco had thirty days with Nichole Hack to prepare him for me. \u00a0I took my first ride and it was a good one. \u00a0Cisco came home and I took him to my favorite summer arena to get better acquainted. \u00a0I rode him in a clinic with Jenny Vaught. \u00a0We were doing great. \u00a0I started trusting him to take care of me.<\/p>\n
Friend Chas called and wanted me to go on a trail ride with her. \u00a0Gulp! \u00a0My first trail ride with Cisco. \u00a0I said yes and the deal was made. \u00a0We agreed to ride at Holden Lake. \u00a0It is a city lake with a trail that goes around the lake. \u00a0The trail include riding through woods, behind people’s houses and across a long damn. \u00a0Louie and Chas; Cisco and I.<\/p>\n
Cisco was excited when I unloaded him. \u00a0Chas and Louie showed up not long after we got there. \u00a0Louie was excited too. \u00a0Chas and I did the ground work with our horses. \u00a0Chas got on Louie and came over close to where I was going to mount Cisco. \u00a0I got up on the trailer fender, holding on to one of Cisco’s reins. \u00a0 Cisco was still a wee bit excited at the new place, but he appeared to me that he was going to let me mount. He stood sideways at the trailer so I could get my leg over the saddle. \u00a0I had to turn around on the fender to get my body in proper position.I turned around and let loose of the rein for a millisecond. \u00a0In that millisecond, Cisco took off. \u00a0He left Louie, Chas and me behind. \u00a0He galloped out of the parking lot neighing and screaming. \u00a0There were two horses in a pasture across the road. \u00a0Where was Cisco going? \u00a0How far would he go? Was there a fence around the Lake Holden Park? \u00a0If there was, it was too far off for us humans to be able to see it. \u00a0Cisco continued his gallop.<\/p>\n
The thing not to do is take a horse and run after the fleeing horse. \u00a0This makes the fleeing horse think that the chasing horse is joining him and will gallop for freedom. \u00a0Chas turned Louie around and started after Cisco at a calm and slow gait. \u00a0She knew that Louie had to become Cisco’s anchor when Cisco’s right brain behavior was replaced by a thinking brain. \u00a0She kept on trying to shorten the ever expanding gap between Louie and the galloping Cisco.<\/p>\n
Heaven was my reward. \u00a0Lake Holden was fenced off. \u00a0I headed for the open gate so I could block Cisco if he ever found the way out of the park. \u00a0Louie and Chas were still heading for Cisco. \u00a0When Cisco came up short at the fence, he ran back and forth a bit trying to find a way out. \u00a0He gave up and noticed Louie. His thinking brain came back. Cisco came over to Louie and Chas was able to grab a rein. \u00a0Cisco was caught. \u00a0He would not be running out wild on the gravel roads of Cass County.<\/p>\n
Cisco and I reunited and did more ground games while Louie and Chas watched. \u00a0Louie was impatient. \u00a0I led Cisco up to the trailer fender again and did not let go of the reins. \u00a0I was able to get into the saddle. \u00a0Cisco and i moved out with some fretting going on with both Cisco and Louie. \u00a0We started across the big meadow with an ugly black stump near a dried up ditch crossing. \u00a0Louie was in the lead, but was uncertain of that stump and the narrow crossing. \u00a0Cisco was fine. \u00a0I let Cisco take the lead and away we went. \u00a0We made it to the forest pathway where Cisco relaxed. \u00a0Louie had taken the lead again and we were going on like you read in the perfect trail ride book. \u00a0We did a water crossing. \u00a0I think he jumped the water, but that was just fine with me. \u00a0it brought back memories of riding Velvet on the trail.<\/p>\n
Cisco and Louie went the entire distance around the lake or did we turn back and take the forest trail again. \u00a0Maybe Chas will remember. \u00a0It was a successful trail ride and one for the memory book. \u00a0My horse got loose and galloped away on our first ever trail ride. \u00a0scream<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cisco had thirty days with Nichole Hack to prepare him for me. \u00a0I took my first ride and it was a good one. \u00a0Cisco came home and I took him to my favorite summer arena to get better acquainted. \u00a0I rode him in a clinic with Jenny Vaught. \u00a0We were doing great. \u00a0I started trusting him to take care of me. Friend Chas called and wanted me to go on a trail ride with her. \u00a0Gulp! \u00a0My first trail ride with Cisco. \u00a0I said yes and the deal was made.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cisco","category-missouri-fox-trotter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3861,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}