Yesterday was "Today I don't feel like doing anything!" day.
But today I went to the beach with Athena. She is such an easy loader. Runs up to the transport by herself and everything. I love that side of her. So without the saddle we went. I've started to use one peace rubber snaffle bit with her. Since she is so much against every movement form the mouth it is kinda good. But at the same time ruber bit is a bit too much softness for Athena. So I got on well and she was pretty nice concidering the fact that I haven't been riding her for two and a half weeks or something. As a matter of fact noone has... So she was quite exited. We got to the beach and went straight in the water with her. And after a few steps in she made a rearing like 180 degrees turn and trot/cantered out...offocre I was like a Russian ax...BOOM! down! My balance bailed on me completely. Broke the reins...atleast I had brought the old ones.
But I got back on and we kept on riding. I held her more with both leg and sad to say hand also. Eventually she gave in to the hand and we walked around water pretty nicely. No swimming today since the waves were too big. Was a bit afraid that she might got water everywhere and yeah. But we canterd and trotted a little along the beach. Trying to keep the pace up and controllable too. Had to use more hand that I would have loved to use but that was invadable since she was overexited and would probably have taken off with me. In the end again she was quite controllabel and even relaxed for her case. Pretty enjoyable ride =)
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