I snuck out to the barn today between my classes (2:15-6) after my tax midterm. Rio was out in the pasture, munching away and made his way over to me as I came in to get him. We headed to the barn and into the grooming stall. There was only 1 nervous poo and he was pretty calm. After he got tacked up we headed into the ring. We took a lap around on foot, just to remind him we'd been there before and it wasn't scary. Then we headed over the mounting block where I noticed he had been giving me a huge belly so his girth would be loose. After tightening the girth I hopped on and we went about our program for the day: walk warm up, trot the long sides, walk in the corners and the short sides. The walk warm up went just fine. But when we got to the trot, Rio wanted to GO...and to go FAST. =) I had to convince him to stop trotting at the end of each long side, to which he responded ("Are you sure? Cause I can canter...really, I can...see...look, a canter step!") But we held it together and only did the trotting. After about 20-25mins we stopped cause I needed to be able to get back to class on time. He was sweaty but seemed like he had a good time. When he was cleaned up I put him in his stall to munch on hay while waiting for dinner.
OH, and I weighed him with the weight tape...I think it must be wrong, cause he's huge (not just fat, I mean he's a big horse), and the weight tape said that he was 1,135lbs.
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