Charity Horses

on saturday me and mary took pockets to a charity event where there are well trained horses and disabled kids get to ride them! pockets was really good for the kids. mary led pockets and i walked next to him. but before the kids could ride the horses they needed to get tested to get used to loud noises and being touched and rubbed. they needed to do that 2 times. the first time through i was leading pockets because mary went to get something from the trailer and and pockets was very good and stood still while they rubbed at him and touched him. and then they dropped a metal folding chair to see how the horses reacted to the loud noise. pockets was doing good and then they dropped the chair and he took off.  mary said she was surprised that he did that. so the next time through, one of mary's friends took pocket through. he spooked again. so he had to do the test a few times, but once he got used to the noise he was just fine again. so when we got home after we went to lunch after we were done at the charity event, i chased porsha around the arena to give her some excersise. i wasn't running her too hard because it was cold outside, so mary said not to force her to run, but she could run if she wanted too. porsha started out trotting. then she tried to turn around in a corner of the arena when she was supposed to keep going in a circle. when i didn't let her do that she got mad. that's when she took off running. so once she ran a round a few minutes, she was still breathing really hard so i got on her and rode her around.