Wee for getting my lj back and writing about almost dying

[metallumnitidus]

So i was riding Ransom in my lesson this morning..and everything is swell. Then suddenly this huge truck comes down the road and makes a load noise and Ransom FREAKS out! First he bolts, and for a almost 16 year old horse...Ransom can hall ass when he wants to. Then he changed leads (when i horse runs he carries one leg more in front of him than the other, specific to the direction being traveled). Then he changed back to the right lead...and then he changed back to the wrong lead. So my instructor told be to turn him in a circle to make him change back again. So I start to do that...but Ransom wont hear of it. So, he plants his feet on the ground, gives a little pop up, then goes into a full rear (when a horse stands on is hind legs). Well i'm holding on for dear life, almost completely vertical in the air, and i'm holding one the reins really tightly. Then my instructor tells me to loosen the reins, and i'm like wah...they're the only thing keeping me up!....but i grap Ransom's neck and loosen the reins anyway. Then he comes back down on all fours and stands still. My instructor then told me that if he had reared any higher, or if i hadn't loosened the reins he would have fallen backwards on top of me, and crushed me.

I think my horse is trying to kill me. I gave him an apple...so maybe he'll let me live! Abused and yet i love him anyway...teehee!

PS. Furniture YAY!!!!

~Kelsey~