Today Mom & I ended our year with a good ride. We went to Coyote Run Arena in Mason, TN . I worked Grace on some basic stuff and then trotted her through the poles and barrels. The way she moved through the pole pattern had me baffled! It was like she knew how to weave them. I told mom "this is kinda scary, lol. It's like she knows what to do". I still can't explain how much she listens to my body, it just blows me away. So that makes me think a lot about if I am doing the same thing every time I ask for something, because repetition will form a habit and I want to make sure it's a good habit. After we got through riding inside I wanted to go outside in the open. This would be my first time to ride her outside of somewhere that had any kind of barriers. As we walked through the field she was looking all over and just checking things out. Then we got to a short trail that we decided to take which she handled pretty darn good. She navigated through trees and limbs on the ground great, however I may have gotten my head popped by a limb or two. We came up on a ditch and she just wasn't having any part of it and since we were kind of in a hurry at this point I said we will work on that next time. So up the small hill we went and there was a very, very small little trench about 4 inches wide that had just a little bit of water in it. We learned what fear #2 was, as you saw in my earlier blog Fear #1 was the roping steers. She would not get close enough to even try to attempt going over it. We tried and tried and tried. So I got on another horse and worked with him until he would cross it and we hoped that once I got back on her she would follow him across... still nothing! So I got off and started working her from the ground to get over it. About 5 minutes later she would finally cross it with me leading her. So I climbed back on her and there she went, right across. Although something you fear may seem so big to you, once you work your way through it you see just how small it really was to begin with. Don't let fear stop you on your journey, face it HEAD ON!
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