Do to the fact my dogs ate my phone, I do not have the pictures I wanted to go along with this post.
I was told many things about Foxie when she first came to me, one of them was that she was too spooky and high strung to make a trail horse. Here again, I keep trying to believe people are not that blind when it comes to an animal that they have owned for years so by impulse, I wanted to believe that there was foundation to the things she was telling me about the horse she had since Foxie was 9 months old.
Again I was proven wrong about assuming the best of people when it comes to their animals. I can say with out a doubt that Foxie is far more of a study mount for trails then my tried and true trail horse I have now. On a whim I took Foxie out for a ride at dusk, spooked up a deer and rode through the trees and under brush (all after a couple days off by the way) without so much of a side step through it all.
the next morning I took her out again for an hour ride through anything I could find to go through to the same results! Turning for home I even asked for the canter to see what she would do. Not only did she pick up the right lead but she never tried to pick up speed or grab the bit.
I keep looking for something wrong with her but as hard as I've been looking the only conclusion I can come up with is;
A) I just got a really nice free horse
B) People are very stupid when it comes to their horses!
