I LOVE This Horse! Part Two

After I had jumped on Chance, I decided to take her on another trail ride. I want to get her out in the woods as much as possible. Since my OH still had the camera, I was excited to get pictures of us in the woods. We headed out to the property line trail that takes us onto our neighbors wooded trails.



I have only walked Chance on these trails once and she did great. So I was interested in seeing how well she did this time. These trails are really nice and wide. Plus my neighbor has interesting obstacles out there that make great desensitization tools. Here we ran into a garbage pile that neighbor J will eventually burn. Chance approached the burn pile very cautiously. But she was not scared of it. I just stood back and let her approach it and she got right up to the pile and sniffed it out.



A little further along the trail we came across numerous barrels. This was a different section of the trail that we did not take the last time. Again she just approached it very cautiously and walked right up to the barrel. She didn't spook, nor did she over react.



We walked by the forts without any problems. These trails are very similar to the ones we ride on, except for the forts and garbage!



She only spooked once, and that is when Sadie realized we left the arena and came sniffing us out at the neighbors. She came up behind us and my OH and I did not hear her coming, but Chance did and she jumped and turned around really quick. That is when we saw Sadie. It is good for her to have all this happen. It will get her ready for when she goes on a real trail ride! We had a great trail ride and headed back to our property and to the lush, green grass for some grazing.



This area of grass is right outside my arena and it is total horse heaven!



One of these days we will fence in this area of our property so we can have another pasture for rotation.



It was a great day and my Mustang just keeps getting better and better!



In other news:

Brandy update~ She is still lame, but she does look better. I have a phone call into my farrier and haven't heard back from him yet. I did talk to the farrier at work and he said it basically is a matter of time for that area to heal and toughen up. We had another couple days of torrential rainfall, so any drying that the pasture had started turned right back into mud.

I had another go-round of bad luck last week when I noticed that Fritzy was having a hard time getting her head down to eat. Something just did not look right, so I got her out and noticed right away she had this huge swelling on the left side of her neck. She had vaccinations done 3 weeks before this swelling, so not sure if it's a reaction to that or not. The vet is having me use Surpass on the swelling and it has gone down some. The vet also said that these swellings can take awhile to go down. I just hope this is the end of my horse troubles. The weather is just starting to warm up and I would really like to have a horse to ride!