Not Such A Good Ride ...

I don't know what it was about today... It was a beautiful sunny day, there was a nice breeze blowing, and it seemed like the perfect day to go for a ride out instead of doing arena work.

Red however, was in a 'mood' ... I started with a quick arena warm-up where we was already displaying his mood, and then we headed out for a trail around the dirt roads... Everything was a boogeyman today. Everything. The tree, the shadow, the mailbox, the windmill, the ponies coming up behind us. Boogeymen.... Horse-eating monsters, the lot of them!!

It was hard to have a relaxing ride, when I was trying to anticipate his next sideways leap. His feeding hasn't changed, only the introduction of some greener lucurne so maybe it's to blame. Spring grass is another thing, but he's been fine up until now. His feed hasn't increased or decreased, his workload has increased slightly. I did notice when I took a hindboot off him, it had rubbed him slightly, so maybe that was another issue compounding the many other issues today.

Ah well. We all have our 'off' days. right?! There's always tomorrow :o)