SwooOOOOning!

I am swooning... right now, it is for Breezy. The lady that has done the body work on my horses emailed me and asked if I wanted to head out this morning on a ride. BEAUTIFUL weather. I decided to take Breezy. My friend had her 5 year old and Breezy is good to have with me for that...He keeps his head about himself when Jester, the baby horse, suddenly becomes “Twister” and does a spin over a duck that takes off or something.

Today it was walking through ice covering a pond crossing...Jester did go a bit bonkers...but Breezy stood still and waited for Jester to reclaim his brain. Then he calmly asked my friend for a carrot. :-) Her belief about “the thought of the horse” is that if she keeps carrots in her pommel pack that she just needs to unzip the zipper at any point in time and presto...the thought of the horse returns. LOL! She has a point, I must admit.

Today, I got to enjoy the fruit of all the body work that my friend has done on Breezy--a most deserving horse. Breezy was feeling so good. He wanted to move out and he just simply seemed to be having a great time. He offered to canter numerous times and did a little kick out that seemed totally gleeful! It was amazing...I am just loving it. He was such good boy. My friend is an endurance rider, but you would never know her horses are endurance horses. I guess I am prejudiced against “typical endurance” because it typically means hollow back, high head and scrawny. Her horses carry themselves beautifully and are VERRRY “thick.” (Well muscled and then some...) She is trying to convince me that Breezy and I could babysit her and Jester on their first 25 mile endurance ride in the Spring. After today, I am just silly enough to believe it. :-)

And to think that Breezy used to be retired!

Heidi
(Who is heading out to the arena now to try to see what is up with Harley.)