First Ride in The Big Arena!

The barn where our CANTER horses are boarded has a round pen, trails and a large outdoor arena across the street at a second larger barn which boards 30 or so horses.


To get to the big arena you have to walk in between two pastures, cross a road, walk on a path along an even bigger pasture next to the road then go in between two barns to get to the arena. In other words, many scary things for an OTTB!


I hand walked Mira over for our first ride and she was alert looking around but very trusting and willing to please. She stopped to look twice, but then moved forward when I asked. She stood still for mounting and walked calmly on the rail in both directions. We did some circles at a walk, walked and whoa, then trotted in both directions. Such a good girl!

I decided to ride her back to the barn and she was calm. She got a little looky when a large truck drove by and did seem relieved to see her galpals in the pasture but such a calm good girl! Lots of Stud Muffins today!