Demetrias' favorite thing in the world is sun baking in the sand. I've mentioned this before. Last week I was out of town for several days and so our routine was thrown off and he has yet to recover. Now I am VERY aware that we had a full moon, 2 eclipses and a lot of storms. The ground feels different to him right now and all of the above things affect him. But this has been a rather ridiculous riding week. Monday I came off because he bucked or something without any warning. If I could fall off that way every time I would be happy to fall off routinely. There were no flips involved and I landed lightly on my feet and then fell onto my butt. He proceeded to trot away towards the gate (rather than run) and I called to him "gate" inside the ring he can't do much damage, out of the ring there are many things to run into which naturally, stresses him and I out. As soon as his dangling reins touched the braided twine gate, he stopped- good boy!
Tuesday he got off easily since a friend came to visit him so he mostly followed me around the ring. Wed he totally got the day off because of the storm that blew in. And Thursday and Friday were 2 of the most unbalanced and unfocused rides, ever!!!
Friday he got his butt kicked on the lunge line because it was either slow walk or buck... sheesh. Hoping today will be better. I know he is bound to have these days and that we are dealing with a learning process but somedays its super frustrating.
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