Bareback
i never really in the past had the courage to ride many horses bareback. when i rode larger horses bareback i felt like i had no control. when i rode smaller horses i nearly had too much. i have had more bareback falls than any other falls ( i've only fallen off 3 times and only 1 was at joshels) when i fell off a horse for the first time it was when i was 9 at my grandads place on his miniature bareback and i grabbed onto a tree branch above me and fell to the ground. my second fall was also a silly fall i was cantering a horse called tokyo and i couldn't make up my mind which way to go around a tree and i chose too late and slipped off, i wasnt in pain but i did get itchy from the grass i fell in.... my 3rd fall there was no other horse to ride and my saddle was in use i was on toffy in the roundyard and saw not much point staying on so when she bucked i let her throw me but because i was paying for a ride i sat on her at a walk for half an hour. when i started going to saturday and doing more bareback i rode cola one day and he was bucking and carying on but i remained seated!!! it was an ok ride. when i rode cosmo bareback more and more i got used to him and decided it wasnt so bad or so hard. i started to feel closer to him and he paid more attention to what i wanted him to do. i've never tried cantering him bareback but i've done heaps of trotting and walking on him. he makes me
feel the real horse i'm riding with.
Elley Parrott
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