Wear Your Helmet!!

Thu Mar 30, 2006

No riding lesson tonight because one of the ladies' mare decided to start bucking, the woman lost her seat, got thrown off INTO the metal stock panels of the round pen and got hit by the mare's head right in HER head! No, no helmet, *sigh*. She's okay, just had the sense knocked out of her and a bloody nose, but she's going to be sore tomorrow I bet.

So, no lesson tonight. Because of that, and the fact the barn owner's granddaughters were riding (5 & 3 yrs old) and very in-the-way, and 4 other people were riding...too damned crowded.

The woman admitted she just can't react quick enough...that horse bucked around 6 times before she got her off...she had plenty of time and room to yank the horse's head around, and we were yelling at her to do that very thing...but by buck 4 there was lots of daylight between her and the seat and that was all she wrote.

Make-up lesson will be Saturday afternoon. *sigh*.

(Should I feel insulted that Bob told me that Quzqo is turning into a fine Quarter Horse because his butt is so big, LOL!)