Lacy

by Horselover

Last year when I was eleven I went to a youth fair (I was in the horse class) were you train an horse and then they have a show. You don't ride the horses.

My friend and I got paired up with a six year old Appaloosa/Arabian mare. She was very spirited. She had never been trained to trot on the lead rope. Also she had a stall were she had to back out,and once when she was backing out she tripped and almost fell. After that she was afraid to go in the barn.

Before the show we were training her and she wouldn't trot on the lead, so the girl who worked there and worked with us had someone else try to get her to trot. That girl hit her with the lead rope (my friend and I didn't like that), she still didn't trot.

My and I friend were determined so we kept on trying. We found a good trick to make her trot, which was that one of us lead her and make kissy sounds and the other run beside her and tickle her flank.

It worked and she trotted every time! When it was time for the show the leader told us that if Lacy had any trouble in the other parts of the show then it would be useless to try to trot her.

But when it was time for the show I trotted her and everyone cheered! It was so amazing hat we trained her! And all this happened in only two days!