Arianna Looks For A Lesson Horse!

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Arianna walked into the barn. She smiled at all of the horses, and looked for someone to talk to about getting lessons started. Arianna patted one of the horses in the barn and kept walking. She decided to sneak around the barn, and looked in the tack room. English and Western saddles were sitting on stands, and bridles and halters were hung up on racks. Arianna walked in more, and opened up a box that was filled with brushes, hoof picks, combs, and fly spray. She smiled, hoping that someday she would have her own horse and she would be able to come in here everyday and grab the tack and tack up her beautiful horse and ride on the trails. Arianna's imagination was always running wild. Arianna walked out of the tack room and looked around for a worker. She saw someone standing by a stall, and she figured it was the owner of the stable. She walked fast over by the person, and waited for the person to notice her.

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Barbie looks away from grooming Lightning when he nickers at some one "oh hey you must be my new Student" she said smiling at the girl "do you have a horse?" she asked in her hyper happy voice, Lightning nudged her "oh and I'm Barbie by the way and this big boy here is Lightning," she said patting him on the neck the Friesian stallen nickered to the girl in his friendly manner.

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"Hi, I'm Arianna! I don't have a horse." Arianna patted the horse that Barbie was grooming. Arianna laughed when he nickered at her. "I would like to start taking English lessons, if that's okay."

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(check the lesion horse thread and pick what english lesion horse she wants, or pick one of the all round horses)

Barbie smiled "OK then let's go have a look at the lesion horses, all are trained to train the rider so let's see if we can find you a horse" she said smiling and sliding out of Lightning stall.

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Arianna looked at all of the lesson horses. One with a black coat caught her eye. He had splotches on his coat too, and his legs were sturdy. He whinnied at her softly and Arianna patted him. "Does he do English? Can I ride him?" Arianna questioned. She scratched the horse's head. "And what's it's name?"

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(heys are u were talking about Dear Old Fellow right?)

Barbie looked at the sturdy young mustang, he whinnied to Arainna "Yes he is one of our English horses," she said storking his face, "yes you ride him he is a good horse and has no big deal vices" she said "he is eager to jump and is a great trail horse" she said smiling, "his name is Dear Old Fellow," she said and then thinking "but you can call him Fella" she said smiling at the horse he seemed to like Arainna and Barbie trusted horses in who they liked.

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(Haha, yeah!)

Arianna almost jumped for joy. But she kept her feet planet to the ground, not wanting to spook Fella. "So, when can I start?" Arianna couldn't wait to get started. She wanted to start getting galloping and jumping over the highest jumps! But, she knew she would have to take it slow at first.

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(thought so)

She could see how happy Arianna was about getting to use Fella, she checked her watch "you can have a test ride on him now if you want?" she said clipping a lead on him and taking him out of the stall so Arianna could see all of him, he was a well mustang with good comformaion, and bone stuucter, "he is one of the fineist mustangs I have ever seen" she told her, "if you want to tack up his saddle and bridle are in the tack room and his name will be right above them," she explained, "and it is mandatory for you to groom him and care for him if he becomes your lesion horse, you groom him, before and after a ride and pick his hooves after every ride, right now the grooms do this but if you take him on he is gonna be your responsablitty" she explained, she prefered to a sign each student a lesion horse till they were ready for next level.

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Arianna nodded, excited for having responsibility for him. "Sure, I'd love to test ride him!" Arianna walked into the tack room and grabbed brushed and his tack. She brushed out Fella and picked his hooves. But when she to the saddle, she was confused. "Um, how do I tack up?" She asked.

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Barbie smiled at Atianna's egerness to take care of Fella, and then she smiled when she asked you tacked up a horse, she picked up the bridle and slid his halter down making sure it was secure on his neck, and then offering him the bit, she slipped her figur into his mouth getting him to open it enough for her to slip the bit in, "OK that is how you bridle him each horse horse in diffarent with bridling," she said and then went and put the saddle pad on, "you have to make sure it is higher then it looks like it needs to be, cause once he starts moving it will slid into place," she said and then putting the saddle on, she leaned under him and grabbed the girth, "here you pull these as tight as you can," she said kneeing him in the stomach making him suck in his stomach a little, "this does not hurt him, you just use your knee lightly to back him stop bloating, and then you tighten the saddle real fast so he can't bloat again before the saddle is thight" she explained, "and some times with him he will do this even when kneed some times it takes two or three times, and if you are riding him and you feel like your saddle is sllidding stop him and check your girth" she said to her, and waited for her reply.

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"Okay, sounds. . .easy," Arianna said. She didn't know tacking up a horse could be so difficult. She kept what Barbie told her in her brain and nodded. Arianna patted Fella, hoping the saddle wouldn't slip off. Her mom had told her one accident, and she would have to do another sport.

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Barbie smiled "yeah its really easy once you get the hang of it" she said smiling "would you like to walk him down to the arena and ride him?" she asked and waited for a reply.