Despite setting the alarm, due to some complications we didn’t get going until fairly late in the morning, but we had decided to trailer the horses over to one of our favorite places to ride, Dupuis Wildlife Management Area near Indiantown, FL. The horses nickered when they saw the trailer, obviously they were ready for a change of scene as well! After the half hour drive, we got the horses saddled up and going by about 1:15. What a great ride! We love this place, it has so many trails that all offer something incredible. We started out on the Green trail, going in a direction we’d never been before, and it seems that they trails have been re-marked fairly recently, as we had no trouble reading any of the markings, and never lost our way, even for a minute! Trails here have great footing, hardly any water or flooding despite all the rain we had earlier in the week, we just rode and rode and rode. Lots of jogging and trotting, and several great canters as well. It even seemed like the horses were more comfortable with their new hoof trim, they seemed to stumble a bit less than usual and just overall seemed more comfortable on their feet, which was terrific! Rode for 3 ½ hours, returned home but then had to run out again to try to pick up some x-rays from our previous chiropractor, but their office had closed early and we missed them, an hour wasted. Got back about 7:30, had some ice cream and cocoa and settled down for the evening, content we had gone a long way toward helping build up our stamina for our upcoming horse adventures!
Despite setting the alarm, due to some complications we didn’t get going until fairly late in the morning, but we had decided to trailer the horses over to one of our favorite places to ride, Dupuis Wildlife Management Area near Indiantown, FL. The horses nickered when they saw the trailer, obviously they were ready for a change of scene as well! After the half hour drive, we got the horses saddled up and going by about 1:15. What a great ride! We love this place, it has so many trails that all offer something incredible. We started out on the Green trail, going in a direction we’d never been before, and it seems that they trails have been re-marked fairly recently, as we had no trouble reading any of the markings, and never lost our way, even for a minute! Trails here have great footing, hardly any water or flooding despite all the rain we had earlier in the week, we just rode and rode and rode. Lots of jogging and trotting, and several great canters as well. It even seemed like the horses were more comfortable with their new hoof trim, they seemed to stumble a bit less than usual and just overall seemed more comfortable on their feet, which was terrific! Rode for 3 ½ hours, returned home but then had to run out again to try to pick up some x-rays from our previous chiropractor, but their office had closed early and we missed them, an hour wasted. Got back about 7:30, had some ice cream and cocoa and settled down for the evening, content we had gone a long way toward helping build up our stamina for our upcoming horse adventures!
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