The RexTrovert

Hey y’all!! Update!

So Rex has some proud flesh on his left pastern… his back two legs have also been inflamed recently due to urine getting into the little scrapes he gets from bushes while out in the pasture. This is a gelding issue… those are getting much better, but I am avoiding riding him right now until that proud flesh is cleared up so that I don’t make it any worse. I may post little updates just on how he’s doing, but I won’t be posting any riding for the time being.

Also, be excited, because we are moving Rex at the end of the month to an actual boarding facility instead of our friend’s place. Because I’ll have access to a covered arena there, I’ll be starting some more scheduled and structured training with him and eventually he and I will be jumping (not competitively, just for fun). So stick around to watch him and I get better over the next few months. My hope is that I’ll be introducing him to jumps early next year!

Anyway, here are some pictures if you’re interested in seeing the proud flesh and his legs and how they are looking. ⚠️If blood and minor exposed tissue isn’t something you’d like to see, please don’t swipe past that first black picture! ⚠️

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1 year ago | [YT] | 1

The RexTrovert

So our most recent interaction was chaotic… I hadn’t been able to see Rex in a week because of school… so I finally got out there on Monday, and he was all out a’ wack… my guess was because he hadn’t been lunged or ridden in a week… so I tacked him up in my English saddle first, to try that one out again… that didn’t go well… at first, the saddle looked like it fit him well, but because he has such high withers, and that saddle isn’t meant for high-withered horses, as I lunged him, the saddle began to slip back. Now, it wasn’t like it slowly slipped back… remember, Rex wasn’t at his best… he broke into a canter when I asked him to simply trot, and I couldn’t slow him down as soon as I wanted to, so the saddle had time to slip back a whole lot… my goal was just to stop him before that saddle had slid far enough back to turn him into a wild bucking bronco… I was able to stop him, and then decided that I’d switch the English saddle out for my usual western saddle. The same thing happened, though the western saddle slipped back much much less. We did eventually get to the point where he was calming down… so after a while of lunging him after he had calmed down, I decided to get on.

I had a friend with me, so we decided to take a trail up to the top of a hill- note: I’ve never taken Rex somewhere like this… the little stream was weird to him and he decided to jump it, but that was all fun in games… until we reached a sort of steep incline just before the top of the hill. I took Rex up it, knowing that he could do it… but there was a tree right at the top of that hill… and you guessed it…

Rex trotted up the hill, and I tried to move him to a spot where the tree wouldn’t take me out… buttttttt….. he went under a branch anyway… I laid down in the saddle, hoping that I would make it under the branch… but instead the branch slammed into my head (which luckily was protected by a helmet) and it took me right off the back of the saddle. My friend rushed over, grabbed Rex, and checked on me… I took a few minutes sitting on the ground before getting up, but luckily, I walked away with nothing more than a few scratched, a tweaked shoulder, and a soar jaw… that was surely god protecting me!

Anyways… the reason I’m sharing this story with you guys is that we all need to realize that horses have a mind of their own, and just because they had a moment of good behavior in the middle of an off day, that doesn’t mean that everything from there on out will be perfect… you have to meet your horse where he/she is at, and work from there, moving at a steady pace… I chose to take Rex to a place he’d never been on an off day… that was a mistake… that day, I should’ve just stuck to the usual ride around the field… but I didn’t, and that taught me something. These mistakes can’t bring you down, instead, look at your mistakes as blessings that will help you in the future. This goes for more than just riding a horse…. It applies to everything in life. One more thing that you have to take away from this, especially if you have a horse of your own, is that, just because you take a hard fall, that doesn’t mean that you should walk away from it. It’s ok to be scared to get back on at first, but you have to push yourself to do it… or else that may be something you regret for the rest of your life…

Thank you for listening!
❤️TheRexTrovert

2 years ago | [YT] | 0

The RexTrovert

Rex, the self-appointed grooming guru, decided to pick his own brush, clearly under the impression that when it comes to his coat, he knows best which tool 'combs' in handy. 😂

2 years ago | [YT] | 0