Holidays

My school holidays

My most exciting moment in the holidays was finally being allowed to jump my horse. I've waited about 4 months for horse to be ready to jump so everything would be safe. I have been training it and feeding and been looking after everyday for 6 months. On the Sunday morning that just past I saddled her up and warmed her up in the arena. I first lunged her so she would calm down and not be so hypo. My horses name is Dorothy like Dorothy the dinosaur, because when I first her she was covered in green paint and she reminded me of her so I named her Dorothy, but I usually just call her Flicka because when she is not covered in paint she reminds me of the horse Flicka from the movies. Dorothy has another horse with her at the stables where we keep her, my instructors horse called Cilla, she is a very young horse but she is very big and she misbehaves a lot so she spooks Dorothy if we ride in the arena and Cilla is in plain sight. After I got Flicka already when went for a trot and a canter and then Me and Naomi, my instructor, put out the jumps. We put 3 jumps out around the arena, they were at roughly 65cm just to start with. We tried at those hight's and we successfully jumped them and then we decided to move the hight up. Naomi moved it up to 80cm's. I jumped the first 2 jumps then in the last one, Dorothy's back leg hit her front leg just before the jump and she got spooked, she quickly turned left and started bucking, so slid out of the saddle and my legs were just like hanging on the side of her, I had no control of the rails so I held onto the saddle, she bucked again and I flung out the side of her and slide on the jump.