Yesterday, my friend Beth came to the barn! She lives in Hawaii and I know her through some other riding friends. She was here in DC this week, so of course she had to come ride my pony!
It was interesting to watch her ride Gambler. He was very confused. He's really a one person horse. Only myself, Madi and my trainer can actually ride him successfully; I wouldn't really know because no one else really rides him, but Beth had a hard time and seeing as she is such a gifted rider, I would think others who aren't used to him would too. In any case, it was very cute to see her riding him, and he was very good for me when I rode him too. Now some photo spammin'. D'yup. Enjoy, all of my nonexistent readers!
It was so awesome though, Beth had a huge smile on her face the entire time!
I had a very good ride on Gambler. I hadn't ridden him in quite a while! He was very well behaved, though. We mainly did work in the field, because that is where he is happiest. Working on bending. We also rode in the ring really briefly and did a tiny grid that Lyric had been doing earlier. He was uninterested! Oh well.
We finished the ride with a wonderful gallop up the hill. My favorite part about him is that he is generally pretty level headed. Who else can say that their super green five year old can gallop sanely? Of course I am now probably jinxing it... so if I die tomorrow we'll know why!
It is always so awesome to get back on Gambler after time off. As much as I love all of the other horses I get to ride, there is something very special about Gambler. I just adore him. He is my special pony. Ah. I love that animal.
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