Personal Narrative: Riding An Untamed Horse

I had always been around horses growing up. I learned how to ride horses at a very young age. However, all the horses I rode were always well trained. Therefore, riding an untamed horse was something completely new to me. I knew when I had purchased Mystic she was untamed and I was aware of all the risk that came with an untamed horse, but I purchased her anyways. The next few months consisted of a lot of ground work with Mystic that would lead up to the day that I was going to have to ride an untamed horse for the first time. It was a gloomy Saturday morning; the air was blowing a cool breeze. I was expecting my mentor, Hugo, to stop by to see how Mystic’s training was coming along since we were looking at riding her for the first time that following weekend. Sure enough, around eight o’clock in the morning he pulled up and we went to go halter Mystic and start a basic day of training. We did what we usually did when he first arrives, we saddled up Mystic and did some basic ground exercises with her; we lunged her around, did ground tying exercises with her, and flexed her neck. Mystic did perfectly fine with warming up so we went to ground driving to see …show more content…
When I pulled on the left rein her head just didn’t come straight to my knee. Instead it was like playing a game of tug of war with her. While all this was going on my heart was beating like crazy and my adrenaline was pumping. Finally, after a few minutes of fighting with her to bring her head in I finally had her head turned in completely at this point she really couldn’t run so I tried my best to keep the tone of my voice calm while telling her to take it easy. slowly but surely she settled down and came to a stop. Now that got my blood flowing pretty quickly and my legs were shaking like crazy. However, I knew I had to take some deep breaths to calm down so I could start walking her