All week Jayden has been up at the arena riding horses getting ready for serpentine try-outs on Saturday. . We took her horse Jessie to the arena and we took Tex with too. That is one of her biggest problems, the mare worries about her buddy at the trailer. Jennilee worked with Jayden riding Jessie showing her how to handle her when she is misbehaving. Jessie whinnies, tosses her head around and dances her feet around. She is basically naughty when her horse buddies are around. She even crow hopped a few times for Jayden. I was pretty discouraged. Jayden rode Monday night, Wed night. On Wed the arena was full of people with horses and flag carriers everywhere. Jessie acted scared of the flag even though we carried flags with her last summer. Jackson had to gradually get her used to the flags. At the end of that night, we had to re-evaluate our plan. Mark, Jayden, and I all talked things over and we aren’t sure if she would be safe or comfortable on Jessie and maybe she should wait a year. There was so much disappointment and holding back the tears in Jayden’s face, I wanted to think of a new plan. Tonight we tried Dakota with the flag. She is not at all bothered by the flag, however she is wheezing and has the heeves. That plan failed. On to Tex, I rode him first and he was great with the flag. Jayden rode him a bunch with the flag and loping. She got along great with him too. Now we just have to decide what horse she will use and if we are for sure even going to have her try out. Mark and I have both gone back and forth on what to do. I just pray that we will know what is best.
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