Pictures of Our Filly's First and Second Trail Ride

[SlitherinSisters]

She's had less than 60 days in the saddle, probably closer to 40 days in the saddle. I'm not completely happy with what our trainer did. I'm not entirely convinced that he put that much work into her, but he did give us a bunch of discounts so we didn't really get a bad deal, what he charged was less than boarding a horse. He did stall break her, she ties for hours without moving, she listens extremely well to very light reins, and stops as soon as she asked even when she freaks out. He didn't trail ride her, he had an indoor arena.

Anyway, here are all the pictures. I was the first to take her out on a trail ride, and my sister was the second to take her out. She did pretty darn good!!! She's a two year old, by the way.

Me on the first trail ride, roughly 45 minutes. She does fantastically leading out! She lead the whole ride, no issues, and never spooked.



She didn't even react when she stepped on to the highway to the sound, feel, or the painted lines. She acts like a dead broke horse, been there done that sort of attitude even though that was her very first time on cement.


On the second trail ride, roughly 1 1/2 hours. My little sister is on her, she's going to be 15


That's me on my paint mare, she's 22.


Going across a fairly large bridge on the highway. Again, Tora, the filly, acted like it was nothing, she barely looked around.


Going down a little slope, I didn't want to push her too much, but I figured the slope wasn't too bad there.

Back on the highway heading home


For those of you who ride and think I ride horribly I know I do I have really really bad knees and the outside of my foot goes numb when I ride, as do my knees. I end up taking my feet out of the stirrups a lot, but other than that I don't know what to do. It's excruciatingly painful to ride with my feet in the correct place.


I also have a question for people who are experienced with training young horses, or horses in general. When I rode her she was fine, but when my sister rode her she got spooked from the sound of the creek and my mom trotting up behind her. When the filly spooked her reaction was to buck twice, fairly violently. I was leading out, and the filly was right behind me, but that was her response. What are we supposed to do when she does that and how you do stop her from doing it. I'm assuming we just need to keep riding her and she'll eventually get over it? She does try to take off after she bucks, she's bucked with me several times in the pen when she got spooked, but you can get her to stop right away when she takes off. I was able to get her stopped within two strides and my sister got her to stop within a stride. I'm SOOOOOO happy she stops, my mare has issues with that.

Oh and yes we are riding her in a wonder bit, but we are using it as a snaffle, that's what the trainer used and yes that's what I use on my mare as well.