Ginger's Big Day

For the past several weeks, we have brought Ginger to GaitWay along with the grown-up horses.  We have done this for two reasons: 1) Ginger needed experience with going new places and doing new things. 2) We had hopes that someday Ginger could do GaitWay as well.  Last time we went to GaitWay, I even rode Ginger around in the arena, and she did quite well.

Today at GaitWay a very exciting thing happened (in my opinion).  Ginger was used in one of the therapeutic riding lessons!  We explained to Grace, Ginger's rider, that this was her first time to give a therapy ride, and that the little girl needed to be gentle and quiet with her. Grace enjoyed her ride on "Princess Gingersnap" and they did a lot of fun things together.  They walked, trotted, played  a game called Red Light, Green Light, tossed beanbags into a bucket, and had a short trail ride at the end of the lesson.  After Grace dismounted, she fed Ginger a carrot.  Now, Ginger has always refused to eat carrots in the past, with only one exception, a carrot fed by a little girl called Lyla.  I fully expected her to refuse Grace's carrot, but she accepted it and ate it.  I guess that Ginger only eats carrots from little girls...