05/04/2026
Not all days are rainbows 🌈 and butterflies 🦋. Today was one of those days.
Blanco tends to get sticky. She’s lazy and she does what she can to get out of the hard work. I’ve barely managed to get a half circle of loping out of her just lunging. I’ve tried it all, tried to keep things in my pocket she’s not desensitized to to keep her moving (I haven’t hardly desensitized this mare as I don’t like a dead head to the world). Today we tried flagging her from our saddle horse and finally got her moving. Got a few full circles staying at a lope.
I got on her, 4th ride for her, and did my normal routine. Once I got her trotting I was struggling, as usual, to get her to stay on the fence line, so I had my husband trail us to help keep her pushed out and keep the momentum. Once we really got that down I told him I wanted to get one full circle loping, we haven’t achieved that yet. We got about 3/4 of the way around and she broke down, so I said let’s pick it up again. We got going and it was all fine, until it wasn’t. I have no clue what triggered her, but she sucked her butt under and off to bucking we went, I about had it until my saddled slid sideways and I about came off over the gate, so I bailed, because there was no chance of recovery for me. I hopped up and instantly said I had to get back on. Got back on, had a calm ride, and dismounted, and was planning to be done until she flew backwards once my feet hit the ground. So I backed her up around the round pen, mounted back up, and then dismounted and she dropped her head calmly and nicely. And that’s where we ended.
Don’t let all the good posts you see fool you into thinking it’s always perfect. I have really taken my time with this mare and we still had an off day.
