Hack Day

 Today was hack day... a nice relaxing easy day. Although I'm not sure Lyric agrees. She was a good girl though and loaded right up and was super all day. We met Sharon and Baylor and went for a hack together. Lyric was motoring! She led most of the way and left poor Baylor in the dust a fair amount. She wasn't jigging.. just marching with that thoroughbred on a mission march. Although I do suspect that was a little bit of anxiety. But she hid it well and was mostly confident going out. We even did a little trotting on a few of the trails. We did start with the big creek and she decided that she didn't want to do it today. But once Baylor crossed it, she was happy to follow him. She also followed him through the second big creek crossing on the back side of Ashland. We walked up the steep hilly side trail and then trotted up squalor hollow. And then she went first over the little creek. After that we went through the fire swamp and then we hit the big creek again. This time, she went right through, still in the lead. Good girl! And there was no hesitation, no jumping, or no scurrying. She's so clever! We headed home via the Great Northern so we got our hill work in. 

 
What a good girl. She was a hair sweaty under her saddle! But it was cool enough that I didn't rinse her off. Just toweled her. She gets tomorrow and Friday and the weekend off, so.. .she can't complain too much about the extra rides this week. :) 





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