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The Winter Of 2015, Bought A Horse Named Sparky

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In the winter of 2015, bought a horse named Sparky. He is a flea-bitten grey, half Arabian. Sparky is 16 hands, so he stood about 5 feet at the withers, in between the shoulder blades. Sparky was such a colossal horse, when I have been standing on one side of him, I couldn 't see over his back. He weighed about 1300 pounds, close to 10 times the size of me! When we got him, I look back and remember being so scared of him, he was a mammoth next to me! After this angel of a horse, I have always said that the best horses are the tall and lean ones, they 're closer to heaven. He was one of the sweetest horses I have ever had. He was my baby. Before I got him, I had been riding a black and white Paint mare, she was insane. I loved her to …show more content…

And when his feet hit the ground the front right will always be the first one to hit.When going into the first barrel of the pattern, you want to be on the correct lead. With sparky I started on the left barrel first so I need to be in the left lead. So to be in the left lead I need to start him in a left circle.So that day, i started my left circle, and picked us speed as I went. I started closing up the end of the circle to make it into the first barrel. I 'm no where close to being a barrel racer, I never have, and I definitely never will, but we were bookin’ it. I think that this was probably the fastest we have ever ran before. I “slowly” pushed him into the “pocket” he need to be in to make it cleanly around the barrel. I think we were going so fast his feet weren 't hitting the ground. We glided to the first barrel lightning fast, and I could feel myself “flying”. I couldn 't place what that flying feeling was, but I felt as if I was a skipping stone gliding across still water. The feeling I felt was mesmerising, it felt like I was just a scrap of paper flying without a care. Compared to my gigantic horse, and the hard ground I was about to fall on, I was just a lifeless piece of paper. To the ground in that arena, I was just another scrap of paper added to the thousands that have fallen before me. I didn 't have a split second to be scared, it just happened. My feet slipped out of their place in the saddle like they had been used to

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