Trail Pony

An impromptu trail ride yesterday evening turned out to be one of the best decisions I've made it a while. :) Since I don't know the trails yet & yesterday was only monster pony's second trail ride, I am the mercy of tagging along when one of the trail veterans goes out for a ride. Yesterday we went out around 6:30 & the weather was just beautiful. Still a bit warm, but as the sun started to set a cool breeze settled in and it made me SO excited for the fall weather to finally get here. At any rate, pony did an amazing job. SO amazing. My poor little girl always tags so far behind since her legs are a good 6 inches shorter then everyone else's, so we caboosed it the whole way & trotted to catch up when we fell too far back. We passed two herds of deer - one herd ran across the trail, and a man jogging. One of the front horses spooked and Cheyenne just stopped behind them, but no spook. That's my girl! Although, I'm pretty sure she was so far back she barely saw any of the things, she still didn't react to the other horses spooking, which is awesome in itself. :) She also maintained her composure behind a fussy horse the whole way home. We went to a new area of trails, with lots of roots and uneven ground and she didn't think twice about going over any of it or hesitate one bit. It took a LOT longer than expected to get home & we were riding in the dark. There was just enough light to make out the horse in front and Cheyenne rode home like a CHAMP! She was amazing, not one single teeny tiny issue the whole ride. It was like she'd done it a million times before.

Here's a picture to show how dark it was by the time we made it back to the barn, and that's with the barn light on! :)

I am SO proud of her. She never ceases to amaze me with what she is capable of. :)