Wet and crazy lease ride
So yesterday was my first lease ride on her, and it had been raining all morning, so we decided to wait until later to ride. We got to the barn right as Chai's pasture was being turned out, so I grabbed her before she went out. I took her and tied her to hay so she wouldn't freak out as much. She chilled out a little while I was getting her ready, but she was power walking to the arena and would not stand. I had to make her go in circles around me before I could get on, and then she walked off as soon as I got on. She was also super bad about flexing, so we had to do it a bunch of times. We walked around for a while till she settled and was not walking as fast. We did the same thing at the trot because she was trotting really fast, and also was being super barn sour. Then we just trotted over 2 poles until she did not jump them or canter out. The footing in the arena was ok. It was fine to do walk, trot, canter, but it wasn't the driest in the world, and nobody slipped. Th...
