She was being a serious brat in the beginning and trying to show off for Pete the Mule and was not listening to me at all. I got her listening after using my mean horse trainer voice. She did really good for like the first 5 minutes down the road then the wind started picking up and she got overstimulated. Then she saw a bus parked in a driveway and called it quits. She turned and started off towards home and I couldn’t turn her around. So I decided to just keep her walking instead of trotting like she wanted to.
We were doing pretty good with that until a pickup truck came zooming past us and she almost bolted. I got her reined in after she went into a trot and we got back to the barn safe and sound without any actual incident.
We both did very well considering that:
1:) she’s being ridden after 7 years of no work
2:) I have no idea if she’s been road ridden
3:) I am still kind of a beginner at riding properly, especially with a horse that uses a hackamore
I was going to go riding again today, but I overslept and decided to just take the day off to be lazy lol
