Personal Narrative: The Youth Equine Enrichment

The way that I was introduced to riding and about horses was kind of funny. A few years ago a stable sent a flyer to my school to be sent home with students, at that time I really thought nothing of it. I was never a girl who was into school sports like soccer and basketball so all I really did in my free time was stay home and enjoy the company of my dogs and that was about it. My mother was going through my folder one day and spotted the flyer and she insisted that we go for one lesson or at least check it out. I was always interested in horses, I thought they were the most beautiful creatures on earth but i was hesitant about going. eventually one day in the summer my sisters and I finally decided to go and see what the “Youth Equine Enrichment
Hanna would bring Lefty and I would bring my lesson horse, which is actually the horse I own now. It was incredible to see her out in the arena doing her thing. She knew everyone at the fairgrounds, the people who checked you in, the competition and the announcers. Not only did Hanna know everyone, everyone knew her. She was definitely more skilled in barrel racing and gaming than anything, she was the high point winner at the end of the year banquet. She won so many plaques and I just sat and hoped that one day that could be me. Going to the barn on weekends and seeing and watching her train horses was the highlight of my week. One spring she had about four horses in for training and she asked me to help! I was so excited as you could imagine. She had me get on a regular lesson horse and practice emergency dismounts at each gait before getting on a green horse. Together, we did lots of groundwork to show me the right way to do things and then I would go and do it on my own. Grace was the first horse that she had me help train. She was a little Chestnut Arab that was afraid of just about everything. I did so much work with her and then a few months later she went home, like a completely different